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the only honest liar, flipping you left-to-right while swearing it doesn't
means A smooth reflective surface, usually glass backed with metal, that bounces light back to show you your own image.
from From Old French 'mirour,' from Vulgar Latin 'mirare' (to look at, to wonder at), a cousin of Latin 'mirari' (to marvel) — the same root that gives us 'miracle' and 'admire.' Buried in the word is the old idea that gazing into a reflection is an act of wonder, not just grooming.
- backwards swap
- reverses depth, not left and right
- first mirrors
- polished obsidian, 8,000 years ago in Anatolia
- self-recognition
- few species pass the dot test
- infinity trick
- two facing mirrors fade, never truly endless
- silver secret
- most are aluminum, not silver, behind glass
the mirror lake — glacial lake in yosemite national park, california, reflects el capitan and surrounding peaks
mirror's edge — 2008 video game by dice featuring parkour protagonist faith in dystopian city
mirror neurons — brain cells discovered in macaque monkeys in 1992 that fire both during action and observation