Interesting article from the NYT Science Times:
More than a decade ago, Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla., received a religious message through an unlikely medium: a grilled cheese sandwich she had made herself. As she gazed at the brown skillet marks on the surface of the bread, a familiar visage snapped into focus.
A grilled cheese sandwich, top, with an image of what some see as the Virgin Mary sold for $28,000 on eBay. Jesus Christ is seen in an oyster shell, a frying pan and a pirogi.
"I saw a face looking up at me; it was the Virgin Mary staring back," she told reporters in 2004. "I was in total shock."
Don't worry, there's some actual science in the article.
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I always wonder how they know this face is Jesus or Mary, but that face is Satan.
And why they never realize it's really Hemingway instead.
Finally got a chance to sit down with the NYT at lunch. It strikes me they're asking two very different questions:
That's one question. The other, which they seem to treat as the same one, is
We see faces because we're hardwired to. We worship them ... why? Same reason? The article never addresses that question at all.
I wonder if the reporter thinks they did?
* It doesn't look like her to me. It looks more like an ugly cartoon character of some sort. I can see the face - I could never see her.
I think the $28,000 was a spoof bid.