This Could Actually Break Your Mind

Intitial Article

There's this thing called "The McCollough Effect" that can "alter the way your brain perceives information."

There is an image that, if stared at for long enough, can effect your sight. I'm not going to actually show the image, because it is harmful to your brain (so don't Google this and try it out).

In a sense, this image can make you colorblind for up to three months!

With this image, if stared at long enough, you'll get what you'd get with any other image. Inverse colors. If the picture is red, you'll see green, if it's green you'll see red, and etc.

This image doesn't just affect your eyesight, it affects how your brain works (in a sense). If you look at them for long enough, let's say 15 minutes (as given in the video), you'll see the pattern of inverse colors, on everything.

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First off.... wow. There is an image that can change how your brain functions for up to three months!! That is insane and amazing.

(And one again, don't look it up and try it for yourself. Putting yourself through things that alter the functionality of such an organ as the brain, is definitely NOT advised.)

My thought on this when I read the title of the article was: "Oh, they found something gross or creepy that made people "go insane" and, like, start murdering people...... let's check it out." Then I watched the video, and well, I was close......  not at all, really.

I guess it could make them go insane? Seeing that inverse pattern for three months would drive me mad, I think.

But seriously, AN IMAGE THAT CAN BREAK YOUR BRAIN!?!?!?

Cool.

(By the way, the image in this blog post is not the image mentioned.)

Lakhan, Shaheen. "Open head". 26 December, 2008. Drawing. 18 February, 2014. 

Heroin in Happy Meals!?

Initial Article

Shantia Dennis, an employee at a Pittsburgh McDonald's, had found an apparently foolproof plan to sell heroin. She was slipping it into Happy Meals.

Police say that if a customer ordered with the phrase "I'd like to order a toy," they would be slipped a little something-something in their meal (if you know what I mean).

To crack this smack seller or smack this crack seller, a couple officers from "a local narcotics enforcement team" went undercover and bought one of these "meals" after they got inside information from an informant. As stated in the article, "Police officers bought 10 bags of heroin in stamp-sized packets from Dennis and found another 50 bags on her person after making the buy."

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Well.... isn't that something... McDonald's being even more unhealthy. Honestly, this article isn't surprising. True, it isn't a good thing and I'm not impressed, but people will do anything nowadays. She wanted money, they wanted drugs. It just happened to take place at McDonald's.

I mean, think about it, it's a McDonald's employee who probably hates their job and isn't making very much money. Or it's just a drug addict/seller that needed a "clever" way to get their stuff out there.

I'm more surprised at the fact that it hasn't happened before. It's a simple way to get a dangerous thing out into the world.

Miller, Simon. "Big Mac." Photograph. Flickr. 15 June, 2006. Web.