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Not to start a flame war here, please tell me exactly how government is accountable? for example

Who actually gets fired over this? Who compensates this poor bastard?

Or here's another name: Richard Jewel. The FBI fucks this guy over, the press falls in line, he wins a liability suit with the press (a million or so), the FBI gets away with fucking up this guys life. And they're still doing it. Look at what to this guy. If the FBI were a corp they'd be out of business right now or at least have paid out billions in settlements.

No sir, I still hold to my original oppinion

Unfortunately, I don't think there's any sort of donation fund setup yet. My knowledge of the situation is far from comprehensive, though.

Dr. Pettit's contact information is available here but it might be out of date. I think the email address is still valid, though.

I'm almost certain that he doesn't have a PayPal account but if the address is valid, I'd imagine it'd be possible to just send money that way or via check to a postal address. I also don't know if there are any ethical implications about him accepting unsolicited donations - I'd hope that it'd be OK but he might refuse if he thinks that accepting them wouldn't be beyond reproach.

I've thought about setting up a simple website and paypal donation system for him. I'm also a bit nervous about the exposure before I graduate - I'm probably just being overly paranoid but the Biodesign Institute's influence permeates the university and I can easily imagine an endless and impenetrable series of subtile roadblocks springing up in my way.

If you're technically skilled, interested and think it'd be worthwhile, you might consider contacting him and trying to set something up if nothing's in place.

It might be a bit difficult but I'd imagine that it might help considerably if Google searches for ASU or the Biodesign Institute included a high-ranking site that explained the situation clearly and rationally and that had links for a legal fund and for information about non-monetary donations.

If you do build something, it may be best to mention that you're doing it independently of him and that he had no part in soliciting the help.

On the other hand, the Biodesign Institute seems far more interested in press and politics than science so there's a chance that such an attempt would backfire and lead to retaliations against him. Still, since they largely rely on smoke and mirrors rather than real progress, bad PR would probably be the most effective attack against Biodesign.

As a graduate student, I do understand the temptation to falsify results. It's even worse in an institution like MIT's CCR because positive results for a drug can lead to an enormous financial gain.

Despite the temptation, it is the duty of academics to uphold the highest standards. If your motivation is to profit significantly from your work, I firmly believe that you shouldn't work in academia.

Tethering a strong profit motive to specific results makes the temptation too strong.

Unfortunately, not all schools respond to such revelations in the honorable way MIT did. There can be significant institutional pressure to falsify results.

A disturbingly similar situation occurred recently at my institution, Arizona State University.

Dr. George R. Pettit is a reagent's professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry. He has made it his life's work to develop treatments for cancer derived from natural products. He has a very strong sense of ethics and has consistently made enormous effort to avoid even the possible appearance of impropriety.

Dr. Pettit built Arizona State University's Cancer Research Institute (now Center for Cancer Research) through private donations and grants. He has had ample opportunity to profit greatly his work but has refused to compromise his ethics and scientific duties.

Several years ago, Arizona State Universtity started the Biodesign Institute. The primary purpose of the Biodesign Institute is to capitalize on scientific research in biologically related fields. Although, I agree that there's nothing intrinsically wrong with attempting to funnel the profits of academic endeavorers back into the university, the Biodesign Institute has become a place where profit is paramount.

It came to Dr. Pettit's attention that one of his collaborators, a member of the Biodesign Institute, falsified immunology data for an experimental compound. Dr. Pettit immediately brought this to the attention of the board of reagents and the university president.

Dr. Pettit was rewarded for his actions with a long legal battle as well as personal and professional attacks against him. To the best of my knowledge, there have been no repercussions for the researcher who falsified their data.

The Biodesign Institute has since absorbed the Cancer Research Institute and renamed it the Center for Cancer Research. Dr. Pettit has been slowly winning his legal battles but has had to take on significant personal debt and hardship to do so.

It's 48VDC on hook, about 9VDC talk and a whopping 90VDC while ringing. See http://cactus.eas.asu.edu/partha/Columns/12-17-POT S.htm for information.

I've bumped against the connections for a ringing line while working in a wiring closet before, and it's quite painful.

If you have a meaningful job then it's a lot easier to get satisfaction from it. Boosting the earnings of some faceless corporation isn't high on my list, but knowing that every day, I can make meaningful contributions to mankind's scientific understanding of the universe goes a long way.

Google's hundreds of thousands of computers use Linux. Certainly not a Microsoft OS!

• Utah State University
• New Mexico State University
• Washington University at St Louis
• University of Texas
• University of Colorado
• Arizona State University
• Pennsylvania State University

From what you are saying, I gather you live in the US. I know of no developed country that has millions of people living "on sidewalks". The US census counted aroun 280,000 people in the homeless category. Even if as is suspected, the study was flawed, I still don't see how it can be an order of magnitude off.

There's also the obvious fact that in the US people have the freedom to improve their lot in life. A person can end up homeless through no fault of their own, but if they remain homeless for a long period of time, then that sounds like a choice to me even if they are troubled.

Our social services apparatus, for poor people, is basically garbage.

What should social services provide? I see two needs: 1) to help people get back on their feet after mishap, and 2) to provide for people who simply cannot function in society. I think US social services do pretty well on 1) and so-so on 2) while EU-based services are more comprehensive and provide a lot of benefits that really shouldn't be a government program (eg, child care, generous maternity leave, recycling and other environmental programs, generous indefinite unemployment, etc).

In my city, Los Angeles, the priority is on building garbage like the Disney Concert Hall (which used public moneys to build a concert hall with expensive ticket prices), while, ten blocks away, there are vast encampments of people living in tents on the sidewalk. They can get food and treatment for their ills, sure, but they have to read the Bible to get it. That's how it works in America. Scraps for the hopeless, carnivals for the comfortable, and opportunities to buy your way out of guilt, through religion.

This sounds like an argument against government-based social services to me.

And why shouldn't people be permitted to buy their way out of "guilt"? Is their guilt more important than the good that their money can provide?

Yeah, but the researchers must have some idea of how they plan to tackle those problem, or else why bother?

Well, I hazard they probably do have some ideas, but that they're vague speculation at best. The goal of creating organisms to live on Mars may be an ultimate goal, but I read their comments as saying they don't propose making that touchdown themselves -- they feel they're just moving the ball down the field a bit.

I thought it was always below freezing on Mars.

Oh no. It gets up to 60-70F or so. Well above freezing for most of the day in the lower latitudes, I believe.

[I]f the total barometric pressure is so low that liquid water always boils, how can even a plant built like the toughest cactus hope to exchange gases with the Martian atmosphere and not dry out?

Well, plants generally do actively dry in this way on Earth. That is, the liquid water they take in through the roots generally exits as vapor through the leaves, and often at quite a high rate. This isn't because of the low total pressure, but because the partial pressure of water in the atmosphere is often well below the vapor pressure of water. In other words, as long as the relative humidity is less than 100%, liquid water will evaporate from plants.

IIRC massive transpiration is actually necessary for tall trees to hoist nutrients via sap flow up to the crown. As the water evaporates out of the leaves it pulls the sap column up the tree.

Anyway, the key to not drying out is to take in as much liquid water via the roots as you're losing via the leaves. Hence the necessity for liquid water in growing plants on Mars. But a low atmospheric pressure, and a low vapor pressure of water, don't seem to mean much more than that transpiration is maybe faster than it might otherwise be.

Remarkably, there seem to be few to no Earth organisms that are capable of pulling water directly out of the air. Even the lichens and bacteria that live in the driest conditions seem usually to simply wait around until liquid water briefly appears and absorb that, then husband the stuff very carefully. There are supposedly some high-altitude lichens that might pull water directly from air, but this hasn't been fully confirmed as far as I know.

Doc Ruby: Sorry but you are in error. For hundreds of years, scientists have speculated about the existence of additional planets based on perturbations, etc. in the orbits of observed planets but the discovery of a planet required direct observation. There is lots of indirect evidence for solar and extrasolar planets (plus the direct observation of some, perhaps all, solar planets). We find perturbations in luminosity, etc. and hope this indicates the existence of a planet. This article, last revised in 2001, states
On the other hand, the major premise, and certainly the most important, is to ascertain the existence of extrasolar planets by direct astronomical observations. Speculation is easy, scientific endeavors are not. During the past several years the astronomical techniques used for observations have become more and more sophisticated leading to precise indirect methods of detecting planetary bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. Although the evidence is compelling for the existence of extrasolar bodies, there has been no direct observation of an extrasolar planet; i.e., a viewing of a planetary body via a telescope and/or a photograph. A number of these astronomical techniques are discussed in Section 2 and 3 of this paper.
I have not been following this closely lately; perhaps direct observations of planets has occurred by now. There is no reasonable doubt that extrasolar planets exist; the only question is the standard of proof one requires to claim "discover" of a new planet.

Really? Where? I've worked here more than 10 years, and I have yet to see it. I know they replaced all the dual 40W flourescent tubes with single 32W 277V fixtures last year, but I haven't seen any solar lighting.

Surely you aren't refering to the fake decorative solar panels that point at the Nipple of Knowledge, are you? ;)That "skylight" brings in about almost zero extra light into the building. In fact, they leave the four high-intensity mercury vapor lights that point into the nipple on 24x7 so it doesn't look so dismal during the day.

But maybe I'm missing something...

I'm probably the one of the few that understands this joke, but unfortunately I don't have any mod points.

But I can offer this, which is the first non-paid hit when Googling for "leslie austin":

http://projects.is.asu.edu/pipermail/hpn/2000-May/ 000742.html

Ahem! Lucy was not a hoax!

Try this link, I believe the doctor is in . . .
http://www.asu.edu/clas/iho/lucy.html

Actually the backbone routers are far more of a liability - take down the DNS root servers and caches would keep things ticking over for a few days. Take down a couple of backbone routers and the resulting BGP storm might take down the internet...

Okay, here's an hour and a half of research into my bandwidth (on a Saturday morning):

• Verizon PC 5220 card, no booster antenna: 158 kbps
  • 7 trials
  • high 677, low 39
  • standard deviation 216 kbps
• Verizon PC 5220 card, with booster antenna: 485 kbps
  • 7 trials
  • high 772, low 51
  • standard deviation 292 kbps
• Covad DSL: 472 kpbs
  • 7 trials
  • high 607, low 381
  • standard deviation 74 kbps

The Verizon PC 5220 card is in a PowerBook. The Covad DSL is plugged into a Power Mac. The laptop performance was measured lying in bed, next to my sleeping wife.

Coverage is pretty good for me. My wife drove us from north Alexandria to Fair Oaks Mall out in Fairfax, I was surfing the web all the way.

Yeah, the slow upload won't let you run a server, but lots of companies provide webhosting, some for little money. Works for me.

Notes:

1. I researched and bought the EVDO plan at http://www.evdoinfo.com/.
2. Bandwidth was measured using "CNET.com - Internet Services - BandWidthMeter Results" ( http://reviews.cnet.com/Bandwidth_meter/7004-7254_ 7-0.html, 2005-06-25T07:40/P1H).
3. Calculation of standard deviation was done at http://invsee.asu.edu/srinivas/stdev.html.

(end notes)

Is the judgement broad enough to allow my city to tear down a Wal*Mart in favor of building affordable housing, if the chain store is found to be adding a disproportionally low portion of its revenue back into the community?

Mickey Mouse is protected by copyright and trademark.

Then why do I see Popeye, Superman, Bugs Bunny, and other presumably trademarked cartoon characters on the covers of VHS and DVD compilations of pre-1964 animated short films whose U.S. copyrights were never renewed? A trademark is designed to communicate the origin of a good; once copyright in Plane Crazy, Gallopin' Gaucho, and Steamboat Willie expires (and some claim it already has), a prominent notice to the effect "this is not a product of The Walt Disney Company" should suffice to distinguish between Disney's works and someone else's follow-on work. Comedy III v. New Line Cinema, 200 F.3d 593 (9th Cir. 2000): "the Lanham Act cannot be used to circumvent copyright law. If material by copyright law has passed into the public domain, it cannot then be protected by the Lanham Act without rendering the Copyright Act a nullity."

If it's anything like the EM-shielded/EM 'anechoic' rooms I've been in (like ASU's facility) it's not the same thing. It's quiet, but not really quiet.

Again, I ask, what headset(s) have you used? I've never experienced it. I've spent the past couple of minutes trying to replicate it with my Bose QC-1 headsets, and I can't "feel" it.

http://www.public.asu.edu/~thomas98/CALVIN/chscrab ble.jpg

In fact, schools and libraries are excellent starting points for the switch from Microsoft to Linux since both institutions are traditionally underfunded. Where the problem comes in is that the vendors that libraries deal with often don't write their software for Linux, but, from what I hear with one of our vendors, that may change as well.

Over the summer and last semester I worked in a nano-satellite lab at ASU. The most recent satellite of ours that was launched was Three Corner Sat and one of its primary mission objective was sterio imaging.

http://threecornersat.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://nasa.asu.edu/
https://spacegrant.colorado.edu/tiki-index.php?pag e=3CS

Unfortunately, the two of our satellites that got launched were released at 50,000 km instead of 100,000 km so they burnt up before they could power up.

http://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/2737

Communication protocols can require exchange of standardized data strings as part of handshaking. That data may be copyrighted.

If the "magic cookie" data is copyrighted, then its intended use is a fair use of the copyrighted work. Sega tried this argument back in the days of the Genesis but got shot down in Sega v. Accolade.

I could write a protocol that requires the client to upload a bitmap of Mickey Mouse to connect. Even if you have the method, it would be an infringement of Disney's copyright for you to use it.

Bad example. Exclusive rights in the first Mickey Mouse films -- "Plane Crazy", "Gallopin' Gaucho", and "Steamboat Willie" -- have likely already lapsed due to a faulty copyright notice: "By Ub Iwerks, Copyright MCMXXIX" instead of the correct "By Walt Disney, Copyright MCMXXIX". More importantly, even if you changed it to "Winnie-the-Pooh" which is thought to be still under copyright, this copying would be deemed a fair use rather than an infringement.

This is similar to how the DMCA can be stretched to cover printer cartridges

Lexmark pulled a stunt similar to Sega's but got shot down even in the DMCA era: Lexmark v. Static Control. Now that such a precedent is on the books, it has become easier for makers of interoperability products to get their way in summary judgments rather than through pyrrhic litigation.

Downtown Tempe, AZ has had free Wi-Fi access (in partnership with ASU) for almost a year now. http://www.asu.edu/it/tempe_asu/

'The smallest mass ever measured would have to go to the electron.'

Give yourself a quick reality check ask yourself these two questions.

What's the mass of Light?
is is smaller than the mass of and electron?

The mass of an electron or light it proportional to the energy contained in the light or electron.
But they are both equally proportional, i.e. they are both leptons.

The energy of Light is Planck's constant times its frequency. E = hv, I assume this is the same for an electron. (google doesn't turn up anything).

Typically the wavelengths of light are equivalent to an electron with a potential of just a few volts, so sometimes light is heavier than an electron, but more frequently electrons are heavier than light.

I suppose for an atom you should count the ironzation levels for the potential of electrons, they they are between 500 and 2500 kj/mol, which works out as roughly between 5 and 25 electron volts. again showing electrons to be heavier than photons.

There's a methodology being tested in the Arts, Media and Engineering program at Arizona State University. It involves using cameras to motion-track the person's movements and associate them with gradiented acoustics (rising / falling tones). It works pretty well, andhelps to retrain the stroke patient's coordination - but it requires some fancy code, a space monitored by a few cameras (iSight's), a computer to process it all, and some speakers...... and the project is still in-process, so it's about as far from public consumption as one gets. I thought I'd mention it in case your a talented hacker or a good negotiator - and 'cause the AME is a nifty interdisciplinary program.

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-shpoffo

There's a methodology being tested in the Arts, Media and Engineering program at Arizona State University. It involves using cameras to motion-track the person's movements and associate them with gradiented acoustics (rising / falling tones). It works pretty well, andhelps to retrain the stroke patient's coordination - but it requires some fancy code, a space monitored by a few cameras (iSight's), a computer to process it all, and some speakers...... and the project is still in-process, so it's about as far from public consumption as one gets. I thought I'd mention it in case your a talented hacker or a good negotiator - and 'cause the AME is a nifty interdisciplinary program.

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-shpoffo

It's been done with the computers anyway...

http://ether.asu.edu/video/TiGutz/TiGutz.jpg

that may be the biggest one currently in operation, but Solar One (bottom of the page) was running in barstow california in the eighties and putting out 10MW of power during full sunlight.

Yes, you do. Consider the ten undergraduate programs at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, including journalism, media management or mass communications.

The requirements for getting licensure vary from state to state. There are states which require degrees, states which require tests, and states which don't require anything. In New York City, for example, they're called "press credentials," and one can only acquire credentials if 1) one has had them previously, 2) works for an established news service, or 3) takes an exam. In fact, if you knew much about the media, you'd know that these passes were used to prevent minority journalists from succeeding quite frequently, and more recently were used to shut Michael Bloomber's electronic newspaper out of most every significant political event in Washington DC, despite his long-established career.

Wow, indeed. Just because you're not aware of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist, even if you know of a phrase which sounds superficially similar. Doesn't it bother you to be so presumptuous?

Ahem. Walter Cronkite has a school of journalism named after him, earned five media degrees from the University of Texas and recieved almost a dozen honorary degrees. Edward Murrow had media degrees from Stanford, U.Washington and Washington State.

So yes, they were journalists. Why? Because they went to school for it.

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This would reduce the need for people to commute as much and the fuel needed to do so.

If less people need to dry to work every day then they might enjoy their weekends more. http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/smoggy.html

This is nothing new. Sean Horan did this in 2001 at Def Con. See the article here. Search for "suitcase" or "Horan."

A movie like this?

Here is a link in case you can't find it on the page. If you save it on your desktop, you can run it in "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer" and zoom in on various parts while the animation is running.

Some spacecraft have experienced problems with static electrical charges building up on the spacecraft. These can cause damage or catastrophic failure. See this.

More seriously, could this be flowing liquid, or falling flakes?

http://www.mars.asu.edu/~gorelick/huygens1.gif

Maybe my imagination wants me to see things, but it does look like pebbles lying in very shallow liquid.

Bare in mind that the pebble in the lower middle of the picture is about 4cm (1.5") and is 85cm (~3') away.

For clarity: That link is to TES, which flies on the Mars Global Surveyor. The instrument on the rovers is called Mini-TES and does similar things.

I work at the lab responsible for both.

For those of you who don't know what TES (Thermal Emission Spectrometer) is, here is some more information. The webpage is quite interesting.

Any other resources that Slashdot readers can recommend for those who are interested in the subject of audio compression and representation?

• An older but good technical survey of digital audio compression, including MP3, is Davis Yen Pan, "Digital Audio Compression," Digital Technical Journal (Spring 1993). (PDF)
• Some other technical reference material on MP3 is also available on the Digital Audio Systems website.
  
• A more recent survey of perceptual coding of audio, which covers more recent formats like AAC, is Painter and Spanias, "Perceptual Coding of Digital Audio," Proc. IEEE (April 2000). (PDF)
  
• Ogg Vorbis is documented on the Xiph.org website, but I found the documentation to be lacking when read from a signal processing perspective. Christopher Montgomery provides a better description from that perspective in a Slashdot interview from 2000. I found another good description in this thread in the hydrogenaudio forums--it hyperlinks a good block diagram of the encoding process.
  

The bodies in advertisements come to represent an ideal that individuals seek to achieve, and hence provide the foundation for a masochistic or punitive relationship with one's own body. It becomes possible to think about one s body as if it were this thing which followed one about and attached itself unevenly to the ideal outline which lingers beneath (Coward, 1992, p. 416). The dislike for the body becomes pathological and has very real consequences such as low self-esteem, distorted self-image, eating disorders, and even changing the body through painful plastic surgery (Coward, 1992; Kilbourne, 1999;Wolf, 1991).

Increasingly, these consequences are manifesting in men, who are responding to a consumer culture that is less and less forgiving of those who are not sufficiently young, thin, and attractive. In response to these images of the perfect male, men are getting manicures and facials, dyeing their hair, concealing blemishes, and spending millions on plastic surgery.

In 1992, men spent $88 million on liposuction, facelifts, nose-reshaping, and eyelid surgery. This number increased to almost $130 million in 1997. In 1996, men spent $12 million on penile implants, and silicone calf and pectoral implants are rapidly increasing in popularity (Fraser, 1999). In addition, men now account for almost 10% of individuals suffering with eating disorders (Fraser, 1999). In short, men are increasingly dissatisfied with their bodies, go to great lengths to achieve a more youthful and hard-bodied appearance, and are suffering the psychological consequences that are a side effect of consumer culture.

It says she and her daughter and son were in a house with a lot of old things, when her daughter (the older child) found a typewriter. She had never saw one. The girl uses the thing, and then starts explaining to the mother how wondefull it is, because it doesn't need wires or "expansive ink cartridges"... Then they got a piece of paper and started using it. The girl was marvelled "look!! You just type and the letters are already there in the paper!... The only problem is that you cant's change the fonts, , but it doesn't matter. There's no trouble with saving files, printing... You just type and it's already there!!"

I can even translate the story if anybody is interested. I love it, because I care so much for the subject (I almost cry when i read it :_) ). Imagine what is it to discover this "new" paradigm... We're so used to computers we forget how difficult they really are. Of course the girl will eventually find that computers have a lot of advantages, but we should never stop questioning the real usefullness of our tools. And children are great for that.

Now, my political agenda. I'm very pro-(command line interface). I found this article once (trough slashdot I believe) about someone who teached command line to people who never user computers before. This article says a lot about how command lines are more dialog-like, while the mouse interface require a lot of abstraction, and thus the command line is near to the normal relationship with another human, while graphical interfaces requires a lot of metaphors and parallels...

Anyway, I believe children should be exposed to things like LOGO. It's an important way to look at things.

Once I asked professor Vibeke Sörensen (I'm her fan :) ) wich approach she tought artists should have when dealing with programming: graphical interfaces (like with fluxograms) or text programming... she said it's the same thing, it just depends wether you like working with a painting or with a poem... I think this is a great insight on the thing. People learning to program should be at least exposed to all approaches before learning deeply. So, I think if you want your children to develop a good view on computing, you should look for some command-line driven programs, since this kind of environment is getting rare those days.

Back in my old school days (ouch, my back!), I was forced to do a lot of "dir"s and "cd"s, and to know what was "a:" before loading my games... And I believe this helped me to start to like dealing with computers.

I would like to add just one nore thing: I learned a lot of english (I am brazilian) just because of computer programs. I had to know what was "file", "save", "open"... I also learned a lot because of sierra's RPG adventures like King's Quest and Space Quest. What I mean is that I owe a lot of important knowledge to difficulties I had with informatics those days, and I simply don't know how to make my future sons learn all that without making them playing Prince of Persia in an old XT!... :)

I don't know, I believe my children will be writting perl scripts before 12!...

In our research lab we use a database of thousands of faces collected by CMU I believe. We also setup a system to collect face pictures using different pose and lighting variations, something not attempted on the scale we have used.

CVSZilla

ScumBug Both provide integration between Bugzilla and CVS. CVSZilla also integrates with Subversion. Jason Pollock

An individual has argued that the Mickey Mouse character may already be public domain because of previous copyright requirements that were not properly satisfied.

Here you go: pr0n?

here

for those without BT, the mp3 is on that page as well

From the samsung definition, it didn't seem to me that they were individually controlling the values of the sub-pixel colors. by this I mean: the four green pixels are probably still being excited from the same single driving line. What I think is different, is that the four green pixels are affected by their neighbouring pixels, and the hardware automatically does the anti-aliasing...

The article doesn't mention anywhere that they have increased the quality of the digital to analog signal converter precision of the LED drivers. It's using a standard RGB signal feed, so it can't be using a 0-2047 color range for the green.

Sorry, I know that wasn't clear.

http://www.photo.net/photo/edscott/vis00010.htm is a clear description of the eye. http://acept.la.asu.edu/PiN/rdg/color/color.shtml is another page that describes things as I have previously been taught them. I'm not sure which is right. Most literature seems to use a log scale, showing the eye to be less sensitive to blue than red or green. Such as: http://www.4colorvision.com/files/photopiceffic.ht m. I believe that we may be referring to different things. Blue cones are more efficient, and more sensitive to radiation than red or green cones, but red and green cones FAR outnumber blue cones. For this reason, we see blue as being less intense. http://www.cis.rit.edu/people/faculty/montag/vandp lite/pages/chap_9/ch9p1.html

One thing I find really interesting is that the eye is actually sensitive to the near-UV. We can see light below 400nm, as I have frequently experienced while teaching a spectroscopy lab. Students build their own Czerny-Turner spectrometer, and observe the emission bands from a mercury pen lamp. Some of the UV peaks are visible (not to all students), although very dimly due to our poor UV-response.

ASU is also rolling out Perfigo. they started a while ago, but they are starting to put it in more and more places

Mickey would be dead some time ago hadn't it been for Disney lobbying hard to get the Sonny Bono act of '99 passed...

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