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3 cognitive biases perpetuating racism at work - and how to overcome them: Our brains take shortcuts when processing information

3 cognitive biases perpetuating racism at work - and how to overcome them: Our brains take shortcuts when processing information to make decisions, leading to unconscious bias and systemic racism at work. Here’s what you need to know.
Source: weforum.org

20 optical illusions and how they work.

Our vision works very differently to how we assume it might work. It uses a lot of shortcuts to quickly decipher the world and those shortcuts are usually correct. Sometimes though, our vision is fooled and it these quirky areas of processing where optical illusions work. This great list id from Listverse.
Source: listverse.com

Hair-raising tales: beauty parlour syndrome and the dangers of visiting the salon: A man has been awarded a £90,000 payout

Hair-raising tales: beauty parlour syndrome and the dangers of visiting the salon: A man has been awarded a £90,000 payout as the latest victim of of this phenomenon. It’s not the first story of a haircut gone badly wrong
Source: theguardian.com