How Artist Claude Monet Was Sort Of Like a Honeybee

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The famous painter who was half-honeybee
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Claude Monet had a very unique eye, and it can teach us a bit about the science of vision
More reading:

Monet's Eye at Download the Universe:
http://www.downloadtheuniverse.com/dtu/2012/04/monets-ultraviolet-eye.html

Simulation of Monet's Cataracts:
http://archopht.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=418859#MONET

More:
http://petapixel.com/2012/04/17/the-human-eye-can-see-in-ultraviolet-when-the-lens-is-removed/
http://www.skepticalartist.com/2013/06/25/claude-monet-and-ultraviolet-light-did-the-master-impressionist-painter-have-uv-supervision/

Music:
Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations

(From The Open Goldberg Variations, by Kimiko Ishizaka
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