{"id":1211,"date":"2009-01-11T05:57:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T10:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2009-01-11T05:57:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T10:57:31","slug":"one-spookfish-was-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1211","title":{"rendered":"One Spookfish Was Harmed in the Making of this Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/01\/mirroreyes.html\">Spookfish Sees Things Like Nobody Else Ever Has<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of all the animals in the world, the lowly spookfish has the oddest eyes \u2014 compound mechanisms that bear more than a passing resemblance to rearview mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom half of its eyes point upwards. The upper half point downwards, and are backed with a layer of reflective guanine crystals that bounce a focused image into the retina.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The titular disclaimer comes from reading this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers tested the eyes by taking flash photographs from above and below a live spookfish, then dissecting its eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(there&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/animals\/090108-spookfish-eyes.html\">this article<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spookfish Sees Things Like Nobody Else Ever Has Of all the animals in the world, the lowly spookfish has the oddest eyes \u2014 compound mechanisms that bear more than a passing resemblance to rearview mirrors. The bottom half of its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}