Dispensary Corner 25 Jun 12
June 25, 2012
THE dangers of drugs.
A 21-year old female is red faced and reconsidering her supposedly harmless hash smoking ways, after she had to be rescued from a 40-ft pylon, which she climbed thinking it was a bridge. The woman thought the pylon was a bridge over the Morava River, and climbed it after smoking marijuana, wearing just denim shorts, a t-shirt and thongs. Worried locals called the police when they saw the woman at the top of the pylon, and after two hours of trying, authorities managed to convince her to come down.
SUPERHUMAN sight.
There is a superhuman amongst
us, subject cDa29, whose super
hero gift allows her to see around
99 million more colours than the
rest of the world’s population.
Discovered by UK researcher, Dr
Gabriele Jordan, the woman is
one of the world’s only
tetrachromats, which means that
rather than having three ocular
cells (like the majority of people),
called cones, which allow the eye
to perceive colour, she has four.
This active fourth cone allows
subject cDa29, to detect 99
million more colours than the
average human can (normal sight
detects around 1 million colours),
meaning she can pick up tonal
differences that the rest of us are
blind to.
Subject cDa29 was tested along
with several other female
tetrachromats using three circles
which flashed onto a screen,
which had tonal differences that
would only be picked up by
superhuman vision.
Only subject cDa29 was able to
see the differences, a result which
led Jordan to tell journalists “we
don't know what allows someone
to become functionally
tetrachromatic, when most fourconed
women aren't”.
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