Doctors urge eye protection during summer months
Experts at Metro Optics in Westchester Square say that those most at risk for eye damage caused by UV light include people who work outside, have blue eyes or take certain medications. They also say that keeping eyes hydrated with drops can be beneficial.
Read more
The DC Intern's-Eye View: Happy Hours, Happy Prices
Washington, D.C., is a drinking town. Those new to the Beltway learn quickly that hours logged after work can be as important as any. For the benefit of all interns spending their first summers here, this Roll Call intern has been conducting research …
Read more
Google Glass App Brings AdSense Reporting To Your Eye
glass-app-icon-1374668657 Yesterday we reported that Glass developer Chad Smith created a Google Analytics Glass App, and today we are excited to report that the same developer created a Glass App for reporting on your Google AdSense income.
Read more
Public Eye: Abandoned Floyd church 'to be repaired'
A Rome resident recently wrote to Public Eye concerned about an abandoned church in a Floyd neighborhood. "I don't know who the current owner is, but the roof of the building is caving in and doors and windows have been removed," the reader wrote.
Read more
America's debt: Where a Democrat, Republican see eye to eye
But even though we had our much-publicized differences during that time we have come to respect and appreciate each other's differing views on various issues. However, one topic on which we see eye to eye is the country's soaring national debt. We both …
Read more
EYE ON ART: Chapel's Gallery Charms With Artwork
They each have impressed me over the years with a sympathetic eye. T. The inaugural show offers a group of photos by three artists — Mirza Ajanovic, Allan Barnes and David McKay. Mirza Ajanovic braved bullets in capturing his images of the Bosnian war …
Read more
Eye on Science
Image by jurvetson
I just love this. My Hawk Eye macro got published in Science, thanks to Creative Commons licensing.
Prof. Fernald from Stanford wrote a fascinating article on a topic that has intrigued scientists for many years – how did divergent species converge in their evolution of eyes – what Darwin called an "organ of extreme perfection." The physics of light have constrained solutions to collecting and focusing light to eight basic types of optics, seen in this chart (with imaging based on shadows on the left, refraction in the middle, and reflection on the right). Eyes have evolved independently at least 40 times.
Looking back, eyes matter. Image-forming eyes appeared in 6 of the 33 extant metazoan phyla, and these 6 now account for 96% of the known species.
It reminded me of my earlier flickr ramblings on the complexity of birds' eyes, – with their wider color spectrum and multidimensional color space. Photographers should give a shout out of respect to dem birdies.
And how about the tadpoles rewiring their visual pathways when they become frogs and move from prey to predator.
While on the topic of being awestruck by biology, check out this video for a modern example… a graphic simulation of a white blood cell… starting in the bloodstream, then through the double layer cell wall, to uncover a "cirque du cell" of lipid transport proteins, DNA synthesis, and ribosomes assembling proteins from RNA code strings.
