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But, oh, what eyes! Peering through a microscope at a twisted-wing male, Cornell neurobiologists Elke Buschbeck, Birgit Ehmer and Ron Hoy were struck by the unusually large lens facets in X. peckii's eyes. The compound eyes of most insects have hundreds of much smaller facets. Each focuses on...
Baskett's strengths lie in his innovative angles and his combination of dramatic color and black and white. His colors often seem unreal due to burning techniques. Baskett does not accept the palette nature lends him; his own lens is more selective. This manipulation is most evident in his picture...
TOMORROW: Permanent lens implants to correct vision while leaving the cornea intact
Why do these myths and folktales exist? Why are they so powerful? The reasons are twofold; we want to explain the unexplainable, and we want to believe the unbelievable. We want the opportunity to contemplate something other than the corporeal humdrum of everyday life. We want the vicarious thrill of...
Later that day, my impulse flight provoked a stern reprimand from my parents, now deprived of the satisfaction of a neat set of 3x5s. And though I felt a slight pang of guilt when my father pointed out that he still had my six-year-old face in his wallet...