{"id":5356,"date":"2010-04-26T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2010-04-26T03:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T08:00:34","slug":"the-eyes-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5356","title":{"rendered":"The Eyes Have It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v25\/st15\">Eye Cells as Light Pipes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The retina is at the rear of the eye and includes the light-sensing cells called photoreceptors. But across most of the retina, the photoreceptors are obscured behind three or four coats of additional retinal cells&#8211;networked neurons&#8211;and a carpet of cellular cables to the brain. Apparently, the retina processes an image by blurring it first. Biologists reference this odd &#8220;design&#8221; to illustrate that nature\u2019s creations are not all so &#8220;intelligent.&#8221; Vision scientists have just tried to make sense of how it works as well as it does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eye Cells as Light Pipes The retina is at the rear of the eye and includes the light-sensing cells called photoreceptors. But across most of the retina, the photoreceptors are obscured behind three or four coats of additional retinal cells&#8211;networked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5356\">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":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356","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=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}