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The Mind Tricks the Eye With the Thatcher Effect
When Margaret Thatcher became the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain, she turned the political world upside down. It is only fitting that an upside-down photograph of the Baroness would be used to demonstrate a fascinating way the brain processes the information it receives from the eye. This phenomenon would bear the name of…
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The Thatcher Warning for Moderates
While many decry partisan politics and point to moderates as the ideal political philosophy, Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) thought otherwise. The former prime minister of the United Kingdom was famously known as “The Iron Lady” because of her resolute will. She embraced conservative politics and cautioned against those who thought otherwise. She warned, “Standing in the…
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Meet Vermin Supreme and Ride Your Pony Into a Zombie-Powered Future
UPDATED FEBRUARY 2, 2021 to reflect the 2020 election season. Readers of Commonplace Fun Facts have already encountered a political candidate who openly declares himself to be insane, a man who couldn’t get elected as president, so he declared himself to be King of the World and a presidential candidate who couldn’t even get the…
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