“If you were blind, how would you “see” a photo?” This is another area where 3D printing can revolutionize people’s lives. Making 3D prints from photographs enables physical representation of imagery. The Singapore based company that is doing this social experiment is called called Pirate3D with easy to use 3D printers. The director of this film …
Evolution Of The Avian Visual System
There is a great online chapter covering the Evolution of the Avian Visual System by Scott Husband and Toru Shimizu covering everything from brain evolution in dinosaurs to retinal structure and post retinal pathways.
Old Pickup
Portrait: Wolfgang Baehr
Portrait: M.E. Hartnett
Dream Manifested
Ultrastructural Connectomics Reveals The Entire Chemical And Electrical Synaptic Cohort Of An ON Cone Bipolar Cell In The Inner Plexiform Layer Of The Rabbit Retina
Sony RX100 III
November Sunspots
Editorial: Death By 1000 Cuts
There is an excellent editorial, Death by a Thousand Cuts by the former head of FASEB, William T. Talman on the research budget cuts in science. It is well worth your time to read it, consider its content and share with people you know.
Photoreceptor Powerhouses
Election Results… Implications For Science Funding
Hubel and Wiesel & the Neural Basis of Visual Perception
The Knowing Neurons blog has a wonderful post on two of the pioneers of neuroscience, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel with a little video of neurons from the visual cortex playing while being stimulated and another video of Hubel and Wiesel describing their cat experiment. Its well worth a few minutes of your time.
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