If a person insists that they are color blind, how can you prove otherwise? This was the question facing Herbert Jägle, Bettina Sadowski, Jan Kremers, Hendrik P.N. Scholl, Beate Leo-Kottler, and Lindsay T. Sharpe, who set out to devise a method. Their 2003 study was carried out as a result of a court case, in […]
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Eye colour and (dis)agreeableness
Can one tell whether a Northern European is likely to be (dis)agreeable or not simply by looking at the colour of their eyes? Dr. Elliroma Gardiner and colleague, Professor Chris J. Jackson believe you might be able to. They recently performed a study which tested the hypothesis that “… light eyed individuals of North European descent […]
Keep your eye on the spider, and the spider off your eye
From Leeds and London comes a new medical horror story: “A Hairy Affair: Tarantula Setae-Induced Panuveitis Requiring Pars Plana Vitrectomy,” Anindita Hom-Choudhury, Antigoni Koukkoulli, Jonathan H. Norris, Bataung Mokete and Oliver C. Backhouse, International Ophthalmology, epub January 6, 2012. The authors, at University Hospital, Leed and at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, report: “Cases of ocular […]
Dr. Schwab’s eon-spanning look at the eye
Dr. Ivan Schwab has done at least two spectacular things. First he accepted an Ig Nobel Prize, in 2006, for explaining why woodpeckers don’t get headaches. Now he has produced a momentous book called Evolution’s Witness: How Eyes Evolved. Hank Campbell of Science 2.0 interviewed him: Eye Evolution Gets Its War And Peace We’ve been […]