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Jul
22
2009

Whoa! Wearing prism glasses that shift vision to the left "shrinks" time, while wearing prism glasses that shift vision to the right "expands" time. I'm intrigued by the linguistic implications of this, since so many of our time/space/numeric perceptions are based on our language.

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Jul
13
2009

  • He describes, for instance, the research of Rüdiger Wehner, a Swiss scientist  who glued tiny stilts made of pig hair to the limbs of desert ants. Because the  insects with longer legs consistently overshot the nest and got lost, Wehner  demonstrated that ants have an internal odometer: they carefully count their  steps when searching for food.
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