Word: colorfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brief mission in space was a tube of applesauce he sucked through a straw. The shuttle offers a decidedly better bill of fare, including such delicacies as smoked turkey, Kona coffee and dried apricots. All the meals are sealed in plastic packets, each of which is coded with a colored dot to indicate which crew member it is intended for. The color code for Brown, the commander, is red; for Glenn, a payload specialist, it's purple. "The shrimp cocktail they fix is very, very good," says Glenn, "as good as what you'd get at Delmonico's. Curt likes...
...when MARILYN MONROE's favorite photographer, Bert Stern, moved to a new apartment, a manila envelope of color transparencies of his last photographic session with her disappeared; he claims they were stolen. "I sat down on the bed and practically cried," he says. "It was nearly all the photos for a book I was working on." He called the police and the press and put up a reward, and he got a packet with most of them from a construction worker who said he'd found them. Now, 18 years later, the rest have shown up. A New York collectibles...
Many people--almost 8 to 10 percent of the malepopulation--are born without normal color vision.This form of color blindness is due to defects inthe retina...
...paper focused on the degree to whichinformation about color is separated frominformation about motion and brightness that isalso processed in the brain. The researchers foundthat achromats were able to distinguish the motionof certain color stimuli just as those without thedisorder...
This indicated that the pathway from the retinato the motion analysis areas was independent ofthe color areas damaged by the disorder