Blog Archives
The Lion, the Watch and the Hormones
Tom McFadden and the Stanford Biologists are back with another lyrical science creation, The Lion, the Watch and the Hormones. It’s all about stress, yo, including short-term responses to danger and the negative health effects of chronic stress.
E2 Perception of Stimuli
Class presentation:
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Essential Biology: E2 Perception of Stimuli
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- Hermann Grid Illusion
Sight:
Collection of animations from North Harris College
Eye structure tutorial from Sumanas
Simple how-the-eye-works from BiologyMad
The Sense of Sight from Wisconsin Online
How many megapixels is the human eye? from Brainiac.
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Hearing:
How the Ear Works, from NobelPrize.org
The Sense of Hearing from Wisconsin Online
Neat Ear Tutorial from University of Alaska Fairbanks
McGraw Hill Effect of Sound Waves on Cochlear Structures
Test your hearing range (carefully) from the University of New South Wales
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- Mantis Shrimp: Awesome Vision
Interesting reading:
The peer-iodic table of illusions, from NewScientist.com
The Mantis Shrimp’s amazing visual capabilities, from NotExactlyRocketScience
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The eye is not irreducably complex – it is the product of natural selection
Evolution of vertebrate eyes from Pharyngula
Owl monkey example of eye evolution, from NotExactlyRocketScience
Video, The Evolution of the Eye, from PBS:
i-Biology 