Tag: technology

  • Audiotapes Some month ago, we were strolling in the streets and found a big black box stamped BBC. Curious, we took it and opened it at home. Inside we found several hundred audiotape from the 90s. Since then I started to listen one of them each day while commuting, for the only tape player I…

  • Shrimp Eye Forget human technology and look at the wonders of the mantis shrimp eyes :   “They have up to 16 photoreceptors and can see UV, visible and polarised light. In fact, they are the only animals known to detect circularly polarised light, which is when the wave component of light rotates in a…