I
have a colleague who cannot tell if something is small, or far away!

Yours

T. Crilley.
(kitescreech still here, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 18:45, 12 replies)

Google isn't helping me.
Is that the man who discovered that depth perception is learned and not innate? I'm thinking of the man who took a pygmy friend out of the jungle for the first time, and the latter thought that some distant cattle were insects.

I'm worried now I'll get yelled at for explaining the joke, but I think it's justified for something that's proving this difficult to look up.
( Bob Todd whee, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 18:54, closed)

um
father ted
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 18:58, closed)

Oh. I've never seen that.
Guess that's a qotw entry in itself!
( Bob Todd whee, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 19:02, closed)

not if you've never seen it, no

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 19:28, closed)

This isn't much help, but it's Fr Ted
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39n-sEklhVM&feature=player_embedded (All creds to montypropps)
( Fr_Jerry_McGwier looked over both shoulders at, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 0:14, closed)

Apart from the Father Ted thing
(which is well worth watching), I don't recognise the story you have there. But have a look at this - www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5507789 . It appears that it is innate, but still has to have the right circumstances to develop, ie eyes that swivel in a useful fashion.
( Fronds are waving gently on, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 1:43, closed)

Oo, how interesting. I read something like that in New Scientist - maybe it was the same woman.

( Bob Todd whee, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 13:06, closed)

T. Crilley?
Isn't he a racist now? And dead.
( nightbuffalo needs more duct tape, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 18:56, closed)

The Greeks
invented gayness you know.
(kitescreech still here, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 19:12, closed)

I take it...
You are referring to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmU_q5xrnto ?
(Hairy Bob, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 20:14, closed)

Yup
thats the one.
(kitescreech still here, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 8:17, closed)

Kudos . . .
. . . firstly, for bringing up one of my all time favourite moments of Father Ted, but doubly for having a Bob Calvert / Hawkwind reference in your sig: you are definitely my type of B3tan.
(kiki chunt now available in blank, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 14:32, closed)