ah, to be a bee…

If we could see the flowers as bees see them they would be even more beautiful and varied! Richard Feynman [The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I, Chap. 36, “Mechanisms of Seeing.”] “Colour is what we perceive after our brains have processed visual information and represents the wavelength of light coming from objects. This is an…

Continue reading

Brain – the most marvelous machine in the known universe

“Traveling across 500,000 neurons, the images took two years to complete. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Dunn and Edwards developed special technology for the project. Using a technique they’ve called reflective microetching, they microscopically manipulated the reflectivity of the brain’s surface. Different regions of the brain were hand painted and digitized, later using a computer…

Continue reading