December 21st, 2006

Interesting examination of vision in non-mammals

“Primates and humans have three photoreceptors and can only see four basic colors, red, green, blue and yellow,” says Jay Neitz, Ph.D. “Birds, fish and reptiles have four photoreceptors, allowing them to see things we cannot. They must see an entire dimension of color, including ultraviolet, infrared and all the combinations thereof, which we miss.”

The above is an excerpt from an article on ScienceDaily.com. The full article can be found here.

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The realities of a politically correct world

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Thought for the day ~ Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

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Santa Not the Only One With a New Contract

In his work representing Anthropomorphic ideas Jeff has had a certain amount of success where others have failed. Not only has Jeff’s mystic powers earned Santa a well deserved break in some of his more strenuous work, but that’s just the icing on the cake.

Years ago Jeff managed to get Jack Frost a cushy position moving his area of operation well North of the 23rd parallel, and it seems that Jack’s work load will be diminishing even further this year. Jeff is clearly quite pleased with these accomplishments and likes to see just how far he can push for the better working conditions of all of our personifications.

I don’t quite understand Jeff’s idea of turning over war funding to corporations. Aren’t most of our modern wars already funded by large corporations? Or maybe they just start them and bog off back home.

Did you ever start writing a blog and then wonder why?

Tune in tomorrow for hot dogs and hamburgers from the South Pole.

Pyrophage

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