Scientists are quick to suggest that this phenomenon is just a “trick of the eyes” but fail to explain both how and why. These observations are most often accompanied by shivers, chills and a sensation that something odd has happened. The truth is that almost every person alive has at some time seen a fast-moving shadow just at the edge of their vision and turned to look but seen nothing more. Generally, these beings flicker in-and-out of a person’s peripheral vision and appear to be humanoid, dark and agile. This unexplained phenomenon was first described by the alchemist Jakob Bohme in the 16th Century as the ability to see shadowy figures out of the corner of your eye. The words “Flimmern” and “Geist” are Germanic in origin and translate as Flicker-Spirits or Flicker-Guides.
Here’s a list of 11 Strangely Common but Unexplained Phenomenon. However, there are unexplained phenomena that are so common that millions of people experience them on a day-to-day basis.
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This talk is part of the 2023 Iowa City Darwin Day Science Fest events, an annual series of talks and public lectures to celebrate the contributions of science to society. She is deeply interested in public outreach and education and is an advocate (in print and lectures) of the importance of science communication and the defense of basic science. She worked as a research professor at UMass Amherst before joining the faculty at Mount Holyoke College.īrennan’s research has received much media attention. Her current interests have expanded to understanding genital evolution in vertebrates, in particular examining female genital morphology and coevolution. During this time she developed an interest in post-copulatory selection in birds and went on to do her post-doctoral work on genital and sperm traits in ducks. Brennan completed her PhD dissertation at Cornell University, where she studied the breeding biology and reproductive system of the Great Tinamou (Tinamus major), a basal bird from South America related to the ostrich. She went on to work in the Galapagos Islands aboard a research vessel (R/V Odyssey). She has a BSc in Marine Biology from her native Colombia, where she studied the cardiac physiology of marine mammals. Patricia (Patty) Brennan is interested in the morphological evolution of genital morphology in vertebrates and the mechanisms that drive genital diversification, sexual conflict in particular.
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