Westland

[ west-luhnd ]

noun

1. a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.

Example Sentences

“By convention, we speak about color, about touch and sound, as if those things are in the world, but in reality, there’s just atoms in the void,” Stephen Westland, a professor of Colour Science at the University of Leeds in the U.K., and a member of the CLP, told Salon in a video interview.

From Salon

“I believe that color is a perception. It’s something we experience,” Westland told Salon.

From Salon

Westland said that in fact, it’s possible that what he experiences when he sees long wavelength light is what another person experiences when seeing short wavelength light.

From Salon

“That’s actually quite a terrifying thought,” Westland said of the inverted spectrum, “because this is not just about color, remember, it’s about everything. It suggests that one possible explanation is each of us is living a reality that would be alien to the other person … and it could well be that what I experience when I see a long wavelength light is what you experience when you hear a bell ringing.”

From Salon

Mr McGreanery, a shop assistant, was shot after a member of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards – known as Soldier A - opened fire from an Army sanger overlooking the junctions of Eastway, Lone Moor Road and Westland Street.

From BBC