These are several optical illusions created by professor of engineering education and leadership at the University Of Texas, El Paso, David Novick. In each of the illusions all the balls are the same color, but appear not to be because your brain is trash and easily tricked. Now you see

This is a video of a Turkish ice cream vendor in Bangalore, India performing his usual routine of ice cream catch-me-if-you-can when the man he’s trying to outmaneuver actually manages to grab the ice cream. Now I’m not sure if you’re required to hang up your ice cream vending hat

This is a video of the winner of the ‘Best Illusion Of The Year’, as created by mathematician Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University in Tokyo. The 3D Schröder Staircase “looks exactly the same right-side-up and upside-down, its left end looking taller than its right.” It was pretty fun to watch,

This is a short video of a pitcher throwing a clever sleight-of-hand pitch for a strike. That’s cool, but you still need two more for an out, and I think the jig is up with this pitch. I’d mix it up with maybe something behind the back or between the

This is a video from Istanbul, Turkey of ice cream vendor Zekeriya demonstrating his skill at frustrating patrons by repeatedly tricking a man who came for ice cream from receiving said ice cream. In the man’s own words, who, yes, did hold a GoPro in his mouth for this video

This is a short video of a baby girl who appears to find herself unable to differentiate her mother (left, in the burgundy) from her mother’s twin sister. Or, who knows, maybe she’s just focusing on pooping. Man, not being able to tell your mom from someone else — that

This is a vintage video from the 2007 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (which appears to have been played outdoors during a hurricane), where Isaac Haxton manages to bluff his way to a win against Ryan Daut’s shitty hand with a somehow even shittier hand. He then decides to show his garbage

This is a short video of Youtuber and musician AcousticTrench covering ‘Mad About Me’ (aka the Cantina Song) by Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes (aka the Cantina band) from Star Wars, with his dog Maple appearing to play the bass drum. While she isn’t actually playing the drum, I