Luna (Not So) Lunes Linkies - Round Five (4 REALS THIS TIEM)
This only took me forever to get up. I apologize.
Here's a DIY mummy flash animation. It's a wee bit morbid when you realize it's meant for the childrens. It distracted me for all of about five minutes last night.
Watching the Early Show rarely fails me. It's like news without actually being news. Since the last linkies, they not only did a report on the sudden increase of exorcisms preformed by the Catholic church (news video clip here), but on the World Beard and Mustache Championships (news clip here).
It is currently undetermined if these two events are related to one another at this time.
The awesome part isn't that these news clips aired within a week of each other but rather that the last The World Beard and Moustache Championship was a year ago and there won't even be another one until 2009. I'm torn between saying, "way to find news, guys," and trying to figure out a way to get my ass to the next one.
This is one of my odd fascinations: tetrachromats. To summarize: humans are considered to be trichromats, or that we have three independent channels for viewing color from three different cone cell types (one red, one blue, one green). So, most mammals are dichromats, humans are trichromats, and some birds, fish, and reptiles are tetrachromats (four different types of cones). The fun link I have for you involves a study that, while difficult to test, it is theorized that some human females could be tetrachromats. Depending on what article you read, the estimated guessed for the number of tetrachromats in the female population may be as low as 2-3% or as high as 50%.
I'm afraid, poor boys, that the existence of human male tetrachromats are zero (unless you're XXY) as it seems the glitch that makes certain types of color-blindness strongly associated with males may be the same reason for the "color super-vision" in some females).
Other tetrachromat articles can be read here, here, and here. And, just for fun, in a "color sense" test, which I found quite easy but I'd hate to do if I were colorblind.
Here's an interesting recount of Sigmund Freud's theory that a woman's nose was connected to her genitals and how menstrual cramps could be solved with a nose operation. Of course he couldn't leave the idea alone without testing it... MILDLY NSFW: no images are shown but it's not a particularly friendly tale.
And a spine lamp.
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Round SIX should be up on Wednesday morning. My main computer is still inoperable and I have three exams next week, which may delay me.
It is currently undetermined if these two events are related to one another at this time.
The awesome part isn't that these news clips aired within a week of each other but rather that the last The World Beard and Moustache Championship was a year ago and there won't even be another one until 2009. I'm torn between saying, "way to find news, guys," and trying to figure out a way to get my ass to the next one.
I'm afraid, poor boys, that the existence of human male tetrachromats are zero (unless you're XXY) as it seems the glitch that makes certain types of color-blindness strongly associated with males may be the same reason for the "color super-vision" in some females).
Other tetrachromat articles can be read here, here, and here. And, just for fun, in a "color sense" test, which I found quite easy but I'd hate to do if I were colorblind.
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Round SIX should be up on Wednesday morning. My main computer is still inoperable and I have three exams next week, which may delay me.