Benham’s Top or Benham’s disk is named after Charles Benham, a toy maker but also an amateur scientist who contributed and published articles to the likes of Nature. Benham’s observation with a toy top was relayed through an article in Nature in 1894 that described a visual phenomenon generated by a toy top painted like …
A Farm In Virginia
At Days End
Life Moves Pretty Fast
Moran Eye Center Researcher Robert E. Marc: 2014 Paul Kayser Award In Retina Research
My colleague and Director of Research at the University of Utah‘s Moran Eye Center, Robert E. Marc, Ph.D. has been named by the International Society for Eye Research as a recipient of the Paul Kayser International Award in Retina Research. The award will be presented to Dr. Marc during the 2014 ISER Biennial Meeting of …
Stars At The Farm
Red Nessie
What Makes A Building Run?
Glass, Stone, Metal And Light
Sunset At Janelia Farm
Crossing The Potomac To Selden Island
Blue
The Blind Woman Who Sees Rain, But Not Her Daughter’s Smile
“Once her belief was sanctified by science, her sight got better and better…” I first read about blindsight back in high school, reading an essay by Oliver Sacks and was absolutely intrigued by the thought of seeing without sight. Now there is a wonderful vignette on NPR by Lulu Miller that talks about blindsight (be sure to listen to …
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The Judgment Of Solomon
I had the honor and privilege of attending a Lasker/IRRF Initiative’s plenary session on Restoring Vision to the Blind at Janelia Farm last month where Mr. Sanford D. Greenberg delivered an emotional and inspiring story of a time in his life where he lost his vision during his junior year at Columbia University. The prospect of …
What You See Is What You Get?
Dwayne Godwin (@BrainyActs) a professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at Wake Forest University posted this fun comic on how visual systems work. It is one of many, really excellent comics he publishes on the nervous system. See more on his Tumbler page here.