Word: opticalness
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...sounds that are not in nature and almost entirely created. Man created writings, the airplane and the locomotive. Why may he not create in painting independently of the forms and colors of the world about him? The public certainly needs to add the action of the optic nerve to those of the olfactory, acoustic and sensory ones. I am still groping in the dark, but I believe I can produce a figure in colors as Bach has done in music...
...charts show a continuous flow of electrical signals, and Dr. White can communicate with them. When he rings a bell near the stump of a brain's auditory nerve, he gets an electrical reaction. When a needle carrying weak electric current touches the stump of the optic nerve, the visual part of the brain responds...
...stature exceeded four feet at some point in history," the philosopher told his amazed listeners, "has stimulated important research in the physicology of growth and shrinkage." Another intriguing question which must be studied, according Homer, is whether, during the brightly over-mined crust stage, man had any sort of optic organ...
...Digest, scanning a master mailing list and picking out names for special mailings; at the Schering Corp., charting the reactions of rats to stimuli in studies of anti-schizophrenic drugs, doing in a week what would take researchers a year; at the Rockefeller Institute, recording the reactions of the optic nerves of horseshoe crabs, to advance basic eye research...
...Ever since a piece of broken bottle severed an optic muscle during a childhood carnival celebration, Quadros has been walleyed...