David Custis Kimball - blog
You: Why Dave; why now?
Me: Well, I've two talented kids; the younger mentioned my stopping with the lectures. Then enthusiastically asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later, Me: 'OK, that's great, thinkin' they might just read it someday.
me ---> 'Gaarr of Blog', aka General Synthesist or da..d <---
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Matters of Import & Timely Expertise
repressing gossip and hate-speech, while protecting our Republic's necessary freedom to righteously offend.
An Inspired Mappable Ponderosity:
'To say: "He is a man of truth," is to say nothing; to say: "He is a man of of," is to state an elementary truth of logic.'
Winston Davids, 1969 - Trinity College
And thanks for pianoforte: 'Anything from the 14th century on...' and at my wedding: DC, 1979.
Psychophysics, Environment, Physics, Design
The eye as a window into the brain has generally been accepted because of the direct connections back into the visual cortex, located in the back of the head. This article introducing another element that many nocturnal animals have, the tapetum lucidum, is extremely illustrated by the reflection in the water. The increased lumens or intensity of the shining is dramatic. This should be made an important part in discovering how we see our environment. This allagator’s high amplitude of redish light could be reflected off animals to verify or detail the infrared ‘heat’ that comes from them and signal whether they are active or ‘sleeping’, and therefore instruct the appropriate attack mode.
Humans are missing this amplification system, or it has withered away because we seek shelter rather than food at night. These are opposite mindsets. We have adapted to a black and white high definition system under darker conditions. Not for attack, but to flee and find protection.
Red Eye
Photographer Larry Lynch captured this haunting, demonic shot of a Florida alligator in the dark of night. The red glow is due to a layer of light-amplifying tissue in the gator’s eye called a tapetum lucidum, the same thing that makes cat eyes glow in photos.
I will now be closing this window, so that I can one day sleep.
(via Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year)
