Cause surprise or confusion (especially something that is counter to their expectations)
The New Yorker
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“Great instruments confound our sense of why and how things are valuable,” John Phipps writes. Read about the bond between one of the world’s most celebrated concert cellists and his instrument.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/when-a-man-loves-a-cello
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Allagan Node
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Confound it! Get blown to pieces!
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Art Pilacinski
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Preprint alert:
We show that pupillary hippus (i.e. rapid changes to pupil size) can be used to index motor planning under naturalistic conditions (which usually confound pupillometric readings due to dynamic lighting).
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.23.696178v1
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