There is, but I can't see the connection to the article. Our atmosphere is most transparent to the optic spectrum, but not any wavelength of light. High energy radiation (starting with UV-light - and the sun emits a lot of high-energy radiation) luckily gets absorbed and scattered away to space again, the only other window similar to the optic spectrum being that of radio frequencies.

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlnasa/reference/ImagineDVD/Files/imagine/docs/introduction/emsurface.html

So the eyes of living beings are optimized for the brightest light that reaches us from the sun through our atmosphere: the optic spectrum. If we were susceptible for a different set of frequencies we would be walking in a much darker world with not so much of a difference between day and night. And we would not see all but the brightest stars.