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Dear friend of Arkadia,

You are invited to ‘What Lies Behind Illusions’ by evolutionary biologist Sedeer El-Showk on Wednesday 5.6 at 6pm at Arkadia (Nervanderinkatu 11)

How do illusions work? Why are humans so easily fooled, even though we have a massive brain and one of the most advanced visual systems on
the planet? Are illusions just cases where our visual system gets it wrong?


Evolutionary biologist Sedeer El-Showk will try to tackle some of these questions by presenting a series of entertaining (or infuriating) optical illusions and explaining a bit about how they work.


The talk will be in English and aimed at non-scientists, though everyone is welcome.

Warm regards,

Ian
www.arkadiabookshop.fi

-Entrance is free but a donation of €3 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome.

Sedeer El-Showk is a science writer and researcher. He is currently finishing his PhD and writing two popular science blogs: Accumulating Glitches (http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/accumulating-glitches), which focuses on evolutionary biology, and Inspiring Science (http://inspiringscience.wordpress.com), which is about science more generally (though still mostly biology).