Sunday, 3 August 2014

Testing for disease 24 hours a day and hidden super talents

Does the time of the day affect how diseases, such as diabetes or cancer, are tested for or treated? Andy and Chris present a prerecorded feature about some research that begins to answer these questions.

Dave, in keeping with a general theme of Musings, tells us all about a very colourful type of hidden 'super power'.

Are you tetrachromatic? What does the world look like to you?

Unfortunately, we can't test on a computer screen for tetracromacy – as the colour can't be replicated by those who can't see it – but we do have some lovely pictures to test for colour blindness. Can you read the number in the image below*?

Test for colour blindness

*Hint: It's the answer to 'Life, the Universe and Everything'.