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Some Women See a Hundred Million Colors

Posted on 2016-03-21 by arjaybe

An unknown percentage of women can see a hundred times as many colors as the rest of us. While normal humans have three types of cones in their eyes for perceiving the three primary colors — red, green and blue … Continue reading →

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Irises

Posted on 2014-02-28 by arjaybe

In his photo collection, “Your beautiful eyes,” Suren Manvelyan of Armenia has captured extreme close-ups of human eyes. I admit to being surprised by the rugosity of our irises. I won’t weigh this down with words. I’ll just show you … Continue reading →

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Seeing Blue

Posted on 2013-07-16 by arjaybe

Language affects how we see the world. More than that, language affects what we see, even what we can see. If there is no word in the language for it, we’re less likely to see it. Scientists at the Massachusetts … Continue reading →

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