Imagine this: you live in a fairly remote place and need emergency eye surgery to save your sight that very same day. you get onto a plane but mid-trip
your flight gets cancelled because of a technical problem. flying with most airlines we know would mean you'd miss your surgery and be in a pretty tough spot.
but not when you're flying SAS. instead of leaving you stranded with a voucher, the airline found a replacement aircraft at another airport,
flew it over to the passenger and got her to her surgery on time (
original article). there is a lot going wrong in the airline industry these days but in my book that's pretty awesome.
posted by krautland
on Apr 12, 2011 -
76 comments
Though the
Boredoms have long been renowned for
non-traditional,
envelope pushing, and occasionally
confrontational performances, frontman
eYe's earlier group,
Hanatarash, were reputed to have been even more extreme, trading in ultra-violent displays with no regard for performer or audience safety. In particular, there was a story of eYe driving a full-sized backhoe through the back wall of the venue. It's the kind thing you hear about and assume that some level of exaggeration is going on...until you see the
pictures.
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posted by anazgnos
on Aug 9, 2010 -
24 comments
The average human eye has three types of cone cells, each of which is sensitive to a different wavelength range of visible light. The difference in the relative signal from the three cones allows us to distinguish colors. Unfortunately, since these sensitivity ranges overlap, there are some combinations of signals from the cones that can't be created by light emitted from a real object. These are the so-called "
imaginary colors". However, by
selectively overstimulating one or more types of cone, we can still perceive these colors; this is the principle behind the
Eclipse of Titan, an optical illusion which produces both a green and a cyan that don't otherwise appear in nature. (Similar effects can be seen in the Eclipses of
Mars,
Neptune, and
Triton.)
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posted by Upton O'Good
on May 10, 2010 -
64 comments
Jon Klassen is an illustrator and designer, with a
blog and a lovely
website full of artwork, including
The Miser (3:53, 2004, made with
Kyle McQueen and Dan Rodrigues),
An Eye for Annai (5:27, 2005,
previously, also made with Dan Rodrigues,
.MOV video link),
an interpretation of
a Mayan folktale (available in full in
Flight vol 4,
previously),
The Adventures of Ship,
a family art project,
visual development and drawings
for sets and props for the movie adaptation of
Coraline (
a couple previous), amongst other bits and bobs. Illustration Mundo had an
interview with Klassen earlier this year.
posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 4, 2009 -
3 comments
Recently, a man's sight was
returned to him after losing it for 12 years. How did he do it? Surgeons drilled a hole through one of his canines, put a lens in it, and implanted the construct in his eye.
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posted by scrutiny
on Jul 18, 2009 -
65 comments
Ted Allen interview! The food and wine expert on
Queer Eye has a new cookbook out, and he talks to Slashfood about...well, everything: favorite foods, music, books, beer, birds, and other things.
posted by braun_richard
on Oct 20, 2005 -
15 comments
Glassy eyes. The
German art of glass eye blowing was developed in Lauscha, Germany in 1835 using cryolite glass. It's a dying art, Australia has only
one practitioner in the country. This slow loading but fascinating
video [sorry, Windows media] shows the process (apparently in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea). With a family history in the trade and a
pioneer in contact lens development, this man's daughter feels that her father is in need of a bit of recognition.
posted by tellurian
on Aug 22, 2005 -
12 comments
Scientists in the USA have
discovered [NYTimes] a new cell in the eye responsible for resetting the biological clock. Its being called "heretical"..
Not every day, Dr. Provencio said, do scientists find a new body function.
posted by stbalbach
on Feb 8, 2002 -
3 comments
