University of South Florida Mass Communications major and puppet trainer extraordinaire.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Photography Changes Everything, Peter Parker
It's nice to be reminded that cameras can serve a much greater purpose than just taking selfies. In the essay "Photography Changes What We Know About Spiders" Jonathan A. Coddington discusses how the introduction of photography has progressed arachnology. Prior to the introduction of cameras scientists could only observe the spiders themselves and attempt to sketch out their webs. Thanks to photography and Bill Eberhard's grandma studying the webs of various spiders is shockingly simple. For something as seemingly simple as sprinkling some cornstarch and snapping a picture the development exponentially furthered what is known about spider webs, from how they are made to how they work. If just the introduction of cameras did so much for arachnology how much has it done and how much can it do for other sciences? It's unfathomable how much has been gained with the ability to take a picture. We can now more easily and accurately study everything from the human body to the universe, not only that but we can document and share our findings like never before.
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