Strange Remains has an article on the history of Optography; the attempt to retrieve the last image seen by the eyes before death, and the 19th century experiments of Wilhelm Friedrich Kühne.
He believed it was possible to develop images, like photographs, from the eyes of the dead. Kühne called the image fixed on the corpse's retina an optogram, and the process of developing this image optography
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Kühne's research was inspired by the work of physiologist Franz Christian Boll. In 1876, Boll discovered a pigment in the rods of the human retina that bleaches in the light and is restored in the dark. Kühne took this observation a step further by demonstrating that retinal pigment, which he called "visual purple" (also known as rhodopsin), remains after death unless the retinas are exposed to light.
A fascinating, and slightly macabre look at an early piece of the history of forensic science.
Link Spotted at Cocktail Party Physics Week in Review
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:13PM
So you don't need to eat brains (iZombie) or invade memories (Stitchers) to solve murders. Imagine that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:16PM
But eating brains got you more than the last image seen in iZombie, and you got a meal out of it too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:26PM
Which makes perfect sense because brains somehow retain their structure after cooking and memories can somehow be absorbed through the stomach.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2016, @09:45AM
Prions can survive cooking and digestive juices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/health/science/q-a.html [nytimes.com]
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday May 23 2016, @10:22AM
Learning by cannibalism was once actually considered possible by scientists. [everything2.com]
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:16PM
The one about Parker
https://strangeremains.com/2015/03/19/discovering-the-pieces-of-dr-george-parkman/ [strangeremains.com]
is interesting.
Basically, the cops facepalm a bit (surprise, surprise) and one guy solves the murder.
Or did he do the murder? Muahahahahaha!
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:36PM
Also:
https://strangeremains.com/2015/06/20/the-macabre-history-of-harvard-medical-school/ [strangeremains.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:17PM
There was a movie involving this idea in the early 1970s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RvL1xW1ySE [youtube.com]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:23PM
Optography in fiction [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2016, @12:52PM
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday May 23 2016, @04:37PM
The Watch in Terry Pracket's book Clay Feet used this method to "see" a victim's muderer. Does anyone know of any other authors who have done this?
Many. I always think of Wild Wild West, but there's a whole list of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography#Optography_in_fiction [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2016, @10:29PM
Will Eisner in one of the Spirit comics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2016, @11:12PM
The Watch in Terry Pracket's book Clay Feet used this method to "see" a victim's muderer. Does anyone know of any other authors who have done this?
Terry Pratchett did, in Feet of Clay [wikipedia.org]. Never heard of this Pracket fellow; are his books any good?