NYU: Size Doesn't Matter

For vision, at least. Spacing, Not Size, Matters in Visual Recognition, NYU Researchers Find

New York University neuroscientists have concluded that it’s the spacing between letters, not their size, that matters. In general, objects, such as letters, can be recognized only if they are separated by enough space, the “critical spacing.” Objects closer than that spacing are “crowded” and cannot be identified. A broad review of this crowding phenomenon, appearing in the latest issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, shows that this critical spacing is the same for all objects, including letters, animals, and furniture.

No mention if the Rayleigh criterion is responsible for this.

What Sam McGee Saw

Dance of the Spirits — The beautiful Aurora Borealis

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

Intro to The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service