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It's not ideal for the human eye to have a blind spot where the optic nerve exits the retina, but that's how it developed, starting from a simple photoreceptor cell.
After landing, a mosquito will slather some saliva onto the victim's skin, which works like an antiseptic, numbing the spot so we don't notice their attack.
Something better might take their spot or perhaps something even worse.
And when the eyes spot something they like, our instinct is to move closer so the other senses can investigate.
The few that are successful settle down in a suitable spot, lose their wings, and begin laying eggs, selectively fertilizing some using stored sperm they've saved up from mating.
Once the food in that spot is depleted, the ants stop marking their return.
But look closer, into this white spot at the center where the two central vertical and horizontal lines intersect.
Notice anything funny about this spot?
Now, keeping your gaze fixed on this white spot, check what's happening in your peripheral vision.
The story of the human eye begins with a simple light spot, such as the one found in single-celled organisms, like euglena.
A more complex version of this light spot can be found in the flat worm, planaria.
This results in a blind spot, where the optic nerve must pierce the retina to reach the photosensitive layer in the back.
The similar looking eyes of cephalopods, which evolved independently, have a front-facing retina, allowing them to see without a blind spot.
This allowed NASA to target a specific spot in Gale Crater, a previously un-landable area of high scientific interest.
This uses an even more thermally stable recording medium, whose magnetic resistance is momentarily reduced by heating up a particular spot with a laser and allowing data to be written.
The only place left for the green-walled house with the coffee drinker is the fourth spot, meaning the white-walled house is the fifth.
Now that the only spot in the grid without a cigar and a drink is in the fifth column, that must be the home of the person in clue twelve.
Now with only one spot left on the grid, you know that the German in the green-walled house must be the culprit.
The signals meet halfway between the food and the base of the arm, letting it know to bend at that spot.
I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for this one.
Then, take the third book and compare it with the book in the second spot.
If it belongs before the second book, swap them, then compare it with the book in the first spot, and swap again if needed.
Essentially the same way our own brains interpret emotions, by learning how to spot them.
However, only one airport, located on the equator, has granted permission for the experiment, making it the starting point, the finish line, and the only spot where the planes can land, takeoff, or refuel on the ground.
The first twelve animals to make it across the river would earn a spot on the zodiac calendar in the order they arrived.
The final spot was claimed by the pig, who had gotten hungry and stopped to eat and nap before finally waddling across the finish line.
People usually do admit their deficits once they can spot them.
So over the next four years, she went to that spot over and over, and eventually collected 30 fragments of that exact same bone, most of them really tiny.
CA: (Laughs) LT: And we were in this bad spot, where we had thousands of people who wanted to participate, but in many ways, I was the kind of break point, where I could not scale to the point where I could work with thousands of people.
There's a sweet spot where originals seem to live.
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