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EYES ARE A complicated part of our body.
They are our windows to the world but the human versions are different to many of the world’s other creatures. And they all differ from each other too, depending on their own needs.
In the February edition of National Geographic, Ed Yong examines the phenomenon. He shows – through wonderful photographs by David Liittschwager - how a creature’s environment contributes to the function, form and appearance of its eyes.
In the article, Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most Exquisite Creation, he tells us if we understand the structure of an animal’s eye, we have an idea of how the animal sees the world.
Check out these 10 amazing shots Liitschwager took to help prove the point.
The eye of a Cuban rock iguana (Cyclura nubile nubila) offers a window into a fundamental truth of evolution: Form follows necessity.
Four types of cone cells in this diurnal creature’s retina provide excellent daytime colour vision. A simpler third eye on top of the lizard’s head senses light and helps regulate body temperature.
You are forgetting the best one of all, Adblock.
“forgetting”
Yeah Reagan – Adblock – the first extension/plug-in I install every time I set up a new machine. But I’d agree with J.Dunn, I’d hardly expect TheJournal to mention it – although it only targets ads that are intrusive (which nowadays seems to be pretty much all of them).
Thanks to the likes of Adblock, and people expecting everything for nothing, you can’t even make a few euro to keep a small website such as a webcomic or a podcast going any more.
Ccleaner for your machine. Cleans off unneeded files and cleans the registry
Adblocker for Firefox is great, it not only blocks annoying ads from displaying on all web pages, but it also blocks YouTube ads before videos and does the same on the RTE Player etc.
I should add to my comments an Extension you won’t find in Firefox’s Add-on’s repository (for TOS reasons) but every browser user should have is HTTPS Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere available for Firefox, Firefox for Android, Chrome and Opera. It ensures you are connecting the the HTTPS SSL Secure version of a website if one exists.
Or just use a pay as you go phone to register on the journal and post while using a VPN as I do Good luck tracking then.
Just silly in this day and age of tracking that people don’t use a good VPN
Sorry Mr Zuckerberg!
Clipple for Firefox is great.. Can save up to 25 copy and paste items at once.
Awesome Screenshot Capture
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