Visitors get hands-on with optical tricks and perception puzzles that genuinely scramble how your brain processes what you're seeing. Good for anyone curious about how they're being fooled.
August 17 – August 17 · 4 PM · Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
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Burke Centre Library — Burke Centre Meeting Room 116, Burke Centre Meeting Room 117
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