Link roundup

• Senate Begins Largely Symbolic Climate-Change Debate: "The era of climate-change legislation is finally upon us -- sort of." (wired)


• Key to All Optical Illusions Discovered: "Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur. And the mechanism behind that can also explain why we are tricked by optical illusions." (livescience)


• NASA Scientists Make Magnetic Fields Visible, Beautiful: "Magnetic fields are invisible, at least usually. But Scientists from NASA's Space Sciences Laboratory have made them visible as "animated photographs," using sound-controlled CGI and 3D compositing. It makes the fields, as explained by the scientists, dance in an absolutely gorgeous movie called Magnetic Movie." (gizmodo)


• Gun T-shirt 'was a security risk':
  "A man wearing a T-shirt depicting a cartoon character holding a gun was stopped from boarding a flight by the security at Heathrow's Terminal 5." (BBC)