Ames room

Did you “play” with shadows as a child? Could you paint a dog’s head on the wall with the movement of your fingers or even more complex images? The exciting news is that here you can become a shadow yourself. And even more so, in…

Would you like to revive the tale of “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs” Ophthalmologist Albert Ames Jr. created a room in 1934 that extends our optical perception. We are a giant in one corner of the room, and a dwarf in the other. In…

You may well recognize the name Tesla, at least from the world of cars. But what about renowned scientist Nikola Tesla, a physicist-inventor who was considered a “foolish scientist” in his time? Thanks to his crazy ideas, there are things in our daily lives and…