Whenever we look at something unfamiliar for the first time, it's only human nature that we look for the familiar in it. Even given the huge variety of what turns up in the animal kingdom, it's only ...

Oxytocin may be responsible for new mothers' heightened ability to see faces in inanimate objects, but more research is needed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

As the brain attempts to organize the visual world, it hones in on familiar patterns -- like the shape of a human face -- and sometimes, it even concocts these patterns out of random noise. We spot ...

Have you ever seen what looks like a face in a cloud, or even a piece of fruit or toast? Human are notorious for seeing face-like characteristics in inanimate objects - for example the likeness of an ...

To be an inanimate object must be, I fancy, a very uninteresting affair. Certainly, being one appears to have a disastrous effect upon the disposition. No one who has had any intercourse with ...

Tio is a British-made technology intended to "animate the world around you". Its Creator and Inventor kits enable children to transform everyday objects and materials - from drink bottles to cereal ...

The possessed or haunted object (often anthropomorphic) is a mainstay of the horror genre, and for good reason. A doll or animatronic character has many of the features of a person but lacks the spark ...

I just completed editing the manuscript for a book about World War II collectibles. I took pleasure in the task partially because the more I read, the more the manuscript rekindled a wealth of ...

Steve Woolgar receives funding from the ESRC. Daniel Neyland receives funding from the ESRC. Popular conceptions of government tend to derive from media representations of politicians in action, ...

Inanimate objects attack me. Doors, tables, chairs, toilet seats, vacuum cleaners, keys, wallets, tools, cars, and computers - to name just a few of my enemies - have it out for me. They sneak up on ...