Hubel and Wiesel & the Neural Basis of Visual Perception
The Knowing Neurons blog has a wonderful post on two of the pioneers of neuroscience, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel with a little video of neurons from the visual cortex playing while being stimulated and another video of Hubel and Wiesel describing their cat experiment. Its well worth a few minutes of your time.
San Francisco IR Timelapse
Happy Halloween 2014
How To Read A Scientific Paper
Many of the visitors to this site are students at a variety of levels from grade schools all the way on up to medical students and biomedical graduate students. One of the things that often does not get discussed at any level of science education is: How to read a scientific paper. It is a …
Inspecting The Dreamtime
Under The Blood Moon
Underwater
Amazing Macro Photos Of Animal Eyes
Photographer Suren Manvelyan has produced an amazing collection of photographs of eyes over the last couple of years. He started with a phenomenal set of images from human eyes and has now expanded his collections to include 3 sets of animal eyes. Part 1, Part 2 and now Part 3. Spending some time looking through …
Portrait: Ann Morris
Why Do We Have Blind Spots… And How To See The Blood Vessels Inside Your Own Eye
A Lo-Fi video, but largely correct and a pretty well done explanation of why we have blind spots in our eyes and the general physiological reason for why we don’t typically “see” or notice our blind spots.
Visualized Transforms
The Other Side Of The Potomac
A Different Lens
Jery October has put together a supercut/short film of a montage of eyes in cinema set to Jackson Browne’s Doctor My Eyes. The short was edited by Bob Joyce and presented at the Society of Camera Operators Lifetime Achievement Awards ceremony which benefitted The Vision Center at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. It starts with City Lights, one of …