Drawing attention to the wrong thing
A painting has been in the news recently.
Gina Reinhart, one of Australia’s wealthiest people, has petitioned the National Gallery of Australia to have the work removed.
Perversely, her request has generated so much media attention that many more people have seen the Vincent Namatjira painting than would have otherwise.
Barbra Streisand knows this all too well.
In 2003 she took legal action to remove an aerial image of her property from the twelve thousand other properties on...
You've been primed! Will Smith shows us how to influence the subconscious.
There’s a scene in the recent Will Smith movie, “Focus” where as a seasoned con-man he is involved in a high stakes bet.
He lets the gent against whom he is betting randomly choose the number of a football player from the teams below them in the stadium.
If Will Smith’s off-sider (Margot Robbie) also chooses the same random player, Smith wins. If not, he loses everything.
Spoiler alert, both choose player 55 and Smith wins.
Turns out that there was nothing...
