Tag: eyes

July 21, 2015 at 3:20 pm

Magenta Doesn’t Exist, Here’s Why

Magenta Doesn't Exist, Here's Why

Magenta is not found in the visible spectrum of light yet we still ‘perceive’ it. Here’s why

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June 17, 2015 at 11:29 am

This Cat has the Biggest Eyes I Have Ever Seen (11 Photos)

This Cat has the Biggest Eyes I Have Ever Seen (11 Photos)

Meet Matilda, a beautiful cat with a rare eye condition.

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May 7, 2015 at 7:28 pm

Picture of the Day: This Neighborhood Looks Suspicious

Picture of the Day: This Neighborhood Looks Suspicious

Photographer Unknown via DeathByTrayItShallBe on reddit In this funny photo we see two suspicious-looking buildings near Liar’s Bridge in Sibiu, Romania. Seeing faces in random objects and buildings is actually quite common, in fact the psychological phenomenon even has a name—pareidolia. We actually did a huge post of “50 Faces in Everyday Objects” a…

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April 14, 2015 at 4:29 pm

Picture of the Day: The Eye in the Sky

Picture of the Day: The Eye in the Sky

Photograph by Kien Do Kien Do captured this stunning view of a break in the clouds that looks like an eye in the sky. The photo was taken 31,000 ft above ground as the plane prepared for its descent to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. via Kien Do on Unsplash

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April 4, 2015 at 10:20 am

This Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein Vision Test Can Quickly Tell If you Need Glasses

This Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein Vision Test Can Quickly Tell If you Need Glasses

Who do you see? MIT researcher and scientist Aude Oliva created this hybrid image made from the high spatial frequency components of a picture of Albert Einstein and the low spatial frequency components of a picture of Marilyn Monroe. From close up, Albert Einstein should be seen. At a greater distance or smaller size,…

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December 10, 2014 at 1:20 pm

This is Zeus, the Blind Rescue Owl with Stars in his Eyes

This is Zeus, the Blind Rescue Owl with Stars in his Eyes

In 2012, a screech owl was discovered blind and emaciated on someone’s front porch in central California. Veterinarians nursed him back to health but deemed him “non-releasable” due to his loss of vision, preventing him from hunting and surviving on his own in the wild. It’s believed that he only has about 10% of…

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September 16, 2014 at 7:41 pm

14 Extremely Detailed Close-Ups of Animal Eyes

14 Extremely Detailed Close-Ups of Animal Eyes

Photographer Suren Manevlyan (featured previously here, here and here) is back with his latest series of macro eye close-ups, Animal eyes 3. The amazing photos provide an astonishing level of detail and cover a wide variety of animals. In parallel to photography Suren has been teaching physics, mathematics, projective geometry and astronomy at the…

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September 11, 2014 at 3:21 pm

Two Blind Sisters See for the Very First Time

Two Blind Sisters See for the Very First Time

Sonia and Anita, two sisters living in India, have been blind since birth, but a simple eye operation makes it possible for them to see their mom for the first time. The nonprofit organization 20/20/20 provides free operations to these sisters–as well as thousands of other people in developing countries. These procedures empower people…

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January 17, 2014 at 4:52 pm

Picture of the Day: This Contact Lens Could Save Your Life

Picture of the Day: This Contact Lens Could Save Your Life

THIS CONTACT LENS COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE Photograph by Google Google is well known their ambitious and audacious side projects and their latest idea is no different. Announced yesterday on their official Google blog, project co-founders Brian Otis and Babak Parviz unveiled an intriguing image of a contact lens with a tiny…

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November 7, 2013 at 4:02 pm

Gigantic Human Organs Made from Glass

Gigantic Human Organs Made from Glass

Designer Sigga Heimis is currently presenting glass organs prototyped and created with GlassLab in an exhibition at Designgalleriet in Stockholm, Sweden. The exhibition (October 30 – November 15, 2013) presents gigantic glass hearts, lungs and brains to bring awareness to organ donation. Sigga Heimis has been working with GlassLab since 2007 at ArtBasel Miami.…

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