March 4, 2013

Friday fun a few days late

I meant to post these on Friday but I got distracted

A most ingenious advertising campaign  Click and see how you do.  I completely failed.

Colgate has created a very ingenious advertising campaign to promote their dental floss.

The Mystery of Magenta and How your Eyes Perceive Colors

Why doesn’t magenta appear in the rainbow? The answer lies not in physics but in biology.

Science presenter Steve Mould demonstrates the strange phenomenon of colour mixing, in which not everything is as it seems. The cone cells within our eyes are responsible for the colours we see, but are only sensitive to Red, Green and Blue light. So how are we able to see so many colours when we can only directly detect three and how do our brains see the colour magenta which doesn’t have a wavelength?

The Namibians who STILL dress like their colonial masters: Tribe clings to 19th century dress 'to protest against the Germans who butchered them'

-Herero-Women German-Dress
Anthropologists believe the dress of the Herero tribe is a fascinating subversion of their former rulers' fashion
It harks back to how the tribe survived effort by German colonialists to wipe them from the face of the earth

Celebrities edited into classic paintings  Take some time to look at these 80 images.  They're wonderful

 Celebrities-In-Classic-Paintings-Sean-Connery

Posted by Jill Fallon at March 4, 2013 9:24 PM | Permalink