Gorillas

The Ways and Means of All Creatures Great Small It�s always good to check out a favourite show especially if you haven�t seen it in a while. There are some that may not meet exactly up to my expectations such as last week with The Avengers �.but that is a one-off from a usually excellent series. When it comes to All Creatures Great & Small I know that I am going to get a great episode. This is especially true when I pick an episode between Series 1-3. I know I am not alone with fellow lovers of television viewing where there are special times during a year where I think certain series are really fun to watch more than other time a year. Usually this can be associated with a memory that happened at the time of watching something special for the first time. Some examples for me of watching Hartnell and Pertwee episodes of Doctor Who are a ton of fun in the summer. The same goes for watching the Hammer film of Quatermass 2 . I love watching it in the summer and maybe that is because ...

The ways our brain arranges what we see Familiar things in Unicorn Image Credit & Copyright: R. Colombari & Francesco Antonucci Image NASA-APOD When we feed our brain with visual data that lacks coherence and meaning the brain steps in and starts to suggest familiar things that arranges the random looking dots and shapes into something recognizable and familiar. This happened to the ancient ones as it happens to us. Thanks to them we learn to connect bright points in night sky into constellations. Since they were defined by people with very different mental visions from ou common perceptions it takes a bit work to understand their logic. The Big Dipper is okay and the Lion looks like a mighty Sphinx. Swan has wings and flies always high up. Everybody recognizes Orion the great hunter with his dog. But why that square is Andromeda and why that big W on the sky is called Cassiopeia or those five stars plus Pegasus? A little study and visual aids calm our brains and we start to se...