Mantis shrimp eyes

  • There was in a fact a study about how humans can also detect circularly polarized light:

    https://www.nature.com/articles/166958b0

  • > Polarized light usually oscillates in a fixed plane, but that plane can sometimes rotate, so light travels along a twisting helix.

    wait what? they can bend light? make it not travel in a straight line? color me skeptical

  • I for one welcome our new mantis shrimp overlords.

  • Obligatory Oatmeal comic about the Mantis Shrimp:

    https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

  • Finally something we're better at!

  • Delicious too