Witness One of the Most Incredible Abilities of the Human Brain

A screenshot of two Twitter posts. The first, by user Cliff Jerrison, says 'one of the most amazing things the human brain can do is when you shake an opaque bottle and get an idea of how full it is by how the weight shifts. there's got to be incredible math going on under the hood there'. The second, by user makaeru, replies 'Related: at a neuroscience conference I was at once there was a talk on how the "microslippages" against your fingertip when you lightly pinch something are generally enough for you to work out exactly how much force to grip it with to lift it without crushing it or dropping it.'

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