In the middle of the 20th century, an Austrian professor turned a man’s eyesight exactly upside-down. After a short time, the man took this completely in his stride. Professor Theodor Erismann, of the University of Innsbruck, devised the experiment, performing it upon his assistant and student, Ivo Kohler. Kohler later wrote about it. The two of […]
Tag: Upside-Down
Upside-down view of extreme sports
Neatorama alerts us to this photo of group skydiving, seen upside down from the (relatively) usual way of looking at such things: It’s from a gallery of unusual perspective photos of extreme sports, on the Unreality magazine site.
“The Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down”
Behold the curious case of a woman whose defective pacemaker wiring caused her to pass out unless she was being held upside-down. Dr Louis F. Janeira, writing in Discover’s Heath and Medicine blog, reports (though changing “names and certain details”): I ran to the ambulance bay, rounded a corner, and saw a huge man, seven-foot-something, […]
Nasal topsy-turvyism examined
More than one scientific investigator has examined the implications of misplaced facial attributes in drawings. [Example] But fewer have drawn attention to the implications of a facial attribute which actually is misplaced (rather than just in an illustration). What would happen for example, if one’s nose was upside down? This question was asked – and […]