Since the whole internet seems to be especially preoccupied with visual illusions in the last couple days, here's another one:

If you don't see it ... start moving back from your monitor.

Answer...They're all involved in car accidents.
Our first story is brought to you by California State Senator Carole Migden who recently voted for a bill banning cell phone use while driving. I'm sure you can guess what happened... yeah exactly... she was chatting on her cell phone and ran into a cute little Honda, sending the driver to the hospital with minor injuries. Ooops.

Our final story shows that annoying friend you have might just cause you an accident if they are blabbing away in your front seat while you're driving. This is of course in addition to making you crash when they call you on your cellphone on the way back home from the body shop with your newly fixed car. Here's the details for this one:

Endel Tulving wrote this FACT, referring to 'The First Axiom of Consciousness and Thought' - 'If a thing is not alive, it cannot be conscious, nor can it think.' Read more, including criticism (sorta).

Do you agree, or ...?

This fun visual illusion was a top ten finalist in the Best Visual Illusion of the Year 2007, hosted by the Neural Correlate Society (donate if you like this annual contest!). From the description: "Some regions in the brains are darker, some lighter than the background. (Please note that we are not denouncing your little dirty thoughts, we just talk about the brains in the picture.) ..."

Researchers who created Bouncing Brains (Hansen, Hamburger and Gegenfurtner) are also known for an illusion recently published in Nature Neuroscience on why we don't perceive blue bananas. Check out Hansen, T., Olkkonen, M., Walter, S. & Gegenfurtner, K.R. Memory modulates color appearance, Nature Neuroscience, 2006, 9, 1367-1368. free PDF.