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  2. Adaptation (eye) - Wikipedia

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    However, in any given moment of time, the eye can only sense a contrast ratio of 1,000. What enables the wider reach is that the eye adapts its definition of what is black. The eye takes approximately 20–30 minutes to fully adapt from bright sunlight to complete darkness and becomes 10,000 to 1,000,000 times more sensitive than at full daylight.

  3. Your immune system needs all the help it can get. Why you ...

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    Plus, potassium is one of the electrolytes we lose when we sweat, so eating an orange can help replace fluids after a tough workout. A glass of 100% orange juice is considered one serving of fruit

  4. Purkinje effect - Wikipedia

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    An animated sequence of simulated appearances of a red flower (of a zonal geranium) and background foliage under photopic, mesopic, and scotopic conditions. The Purkinje effect or Purkinje phenomenon (Czech: [ˈpurkɪɲɛ] ⓘ; sometimes called the Purkinje shift, often pronounced / p ər ˈ k ɪ n dʒ i /) [1] is the tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the eye to shift toward the ...

  5. Tetrachromacy - Wikipedia

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    The four pigments in a bird's cone cells (in this example, estrildid finches) extend the range of color vision into the ultraviolet. [1]Tetrachromacy (from Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chroma, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cell in the eye.

  6. 5 of the most common health myths about soda - AOL

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    Whether you can't seem to stay away from the taste of sprite, or you resort to a can of coke for a midday pick-me-up -- you know what it's like to enjoy the sweet taste of soda throughout the day.

  7. Photoperiodism - Wikipedia

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    The length of the light and dark in each phase varies across the seasons due to the tilt of the earth around its axis. The photoperiod defines the length of the light, for example a summer day the length of light could be 16 hours while the dark is 8 hours, whereas a winter day the length of day could be 8 hours, whereas the dark is 16 hours.

  8. The fall equinox is here. What does that mean? - AOL

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    The equinox arrives on Saturday, marking the start of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere. Here's what to know about how we split up the year using the Earth's orbit. As the Earth travels ...

  9. Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    It can be seen by shining the beam of a small bright light through the pupil from the periphery of a subject's vision. This results in an image of the light being focused on the periphery of the retina. Light from this spot then casts shadows of the blood vessels (which lie on top of the retina) onto unadapted portions of the retina.