American Redstart
Cat Show
Monument To The Dead, Constantine 1943
Fiery The Angels Rose…
Studio Lighting Photowalk, 2012
Quick Trip, SLC To LAS… And Back
Jumping Spiders Use Image Defocusing For Depth Perception
A study out in today’s Science Magazine by Takashi Nagata, Mitsumasa Koyanagi, Hisao Tsukamoto, Shinjiro Saeki, Kunio Isono, Yoshinori Shichida, Fumio Tokunaga, Michiyo Kinoshita, Kentaro Arikawa and Akihisa Terakita proposes that jumping spiders at least, use image defocusing to provide depth perception. Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are the largest family of spiders and have perhaps the best visual …
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Building The C-130J
Notable Paper: Localization of Melatonin Receptor 1 in Mouse Retina and Its Role in the Circadian Regulation of the Electroretinogram and Dopamine Levels
I’ve watched the development of the circadian rhythm research starting with Joe Takahashi‘s work discovering CLOCK in the mammalian SCN back in 1994. Since then there has been an explosion of circadian rhythm biology work including an I suppose, unsurprising amount of research in the retina proper. This paper by Anamika Sengupta, Kenkichi Baba, Francesca Mazzoni, Nikita V. Pozdeyev, Enrica …
Porsche Museum
Flying… and a Soapbox.
Weekend App Experiments
Atmospheric Research On The Wasatch Front
Utah Gymnastics vs Stanford
AAC Big Bang Party 2011, Whole Lotta Rosies
