Why Can't We Imagine A New Color? | Miranda Cosgrove's STEM Loft

Close you eyes and try to imagine a new color...go ahead, we'll wait! Leave a comment if you can imagine something new! Or if you can't, leave a comment anyway, and let us know your favorite pre-existing color! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Welcome to the #STEMLoft. Each week, Mission Unstoppable host #MirandaCosgrove will share some of her favorite STEM facts and stem-tastic stories with you.
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[@sophritoh]

Never thought she would become a science teacher! That’s dope that she’s following her passions, going a route no one would guess (at least not the public, I’m sure her family knew she was into science lol)

[@Agmolly]

She's been doing this show for years! It's so good. Her team really focused on women in stem too. I love it ❤️

[@justinjayankura8676]

Your awesome Miranda, keep up the good work!

[@therationalluddite]

Apparently, magenta doesn't exist on the visible light spectrum and is just a color our brain creates.

[@MonsterPrincessLala]

Magenta is a pigment not a wavelength. As light it's a variety of red and blue. Like how you are a real person irl and an entitled buffoon online.

[@Xionarra]

Cite your source.

[@DESTRAKON]

@@Xionarra “because reasons”

[@autumndeer13aextras14]

That one Minecraft sheep that I died magenta:… Also my favorite color is magenta

[@stephaniecohn365]

I remember learning about this. It’s because blue and red are on opposite ends of the color spectrum, so in order to connect the 2 ends in a circle, we “combined” what we imagine the 2 would look like together, and I think it contains both competing wavelengths at once?

[@nathaliaarcos1852]

Is Miranda the new Bill Nye? 🫢

[@stephanielopez5374]

This video is like 3 worlds colliding for me. Miranda from my childhood, science major, and my curiosity for everything.

[@alexandrafokine3227]

Miranda: “your brain can’t comprehend a new color” HP Lovecraft : (enters the chat)

[@jadentheenby1753]

She’s so iconic, I wish her incredible good luck

[@ThomasFackrell]

This is so wholesome and admirable of you to be contributing to this part of the KZbin community! Keep it up!

[@Yapah.S.Da.K.O.S]

I know I had asked this question years and years ago. I know the Most High probably has so much more for us to experience in the next life with him! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Including NEW COLORS!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@cecigrey3900]

I think different shades are pretty cool to imagine like clothes or cars or items I have never seen in certain colors .. but it’s interesting how people view colors that are mixed like sea green but most people call it aqua or blue. pretty cool video

[@thehoardedgrotto8521]

I always thought that was just people being lazy. However some cultures don't have a word for blue and if they do it's one color not a million shades. Language in many ways defines our parameters for description. If you don't have a word for purple you might call it blue.

[@jessyvalentine7492]

Trying to imagine a new color takes me to iridescence in outer space. I am one of the lucky few with extra rods or cones, the extra ones see flourescent red, so lots of red things are very noticeable to me, and red is my favorite color because its so interesting this way.

[@Davysgravy]

Love this show 🥰 Miranda really delivers to 😘

[@kaykayjay8023]

I love this channel so much. Please keep up the videos Miranda💖

[@hedgehawk9411]

Idk man I ate some funshrooms and saw colors I never knew existed.

[@dawnarxtic]

Can you describe them 😅

[@hedgehawk9411]

@@dawnarxtic oh, baby. That would be like trying to describe yellow when you’ve only known a world of red.

[@ariannasearway]

Are her shoes on the wrong feet? I can’t unsee it now.

[@sav3dgirl194]

Why does this remind me of her teaching that one kid the new number derf 😂 does anyone know what im talking about

[@Yuhitslivvv]

YES OMG i remember that episode

[@starchildofthe90s7]

This freaked me out

[@tatyana2957]

You have a lovely voice!! Also love the hair :)

[@ayeenisa6697]

This is litt , and I mean littttt 🔥🔥🫶🏼 bravoo!

[@faithcyan2462]

Great. I'm never going to sleep ever again. She got a point. This question is going to haunt me for the rest of my life. I wish sam can hit me with a butter socks, so i can forget.

[@romanski5811]

There are people with tetrachromacy who can see more colors than average because they have four types of cones.

[@warm_spittle2141]

They still aren’t technically new colors but that is really cool!

[@roxdaphe]

The way I subscribed IMMEDIATELY

[@Remhad]

We technically can’t think of another color because of our limited photo-receptors. We can only see what our photo-receptors can pick up on. Magenta does exist, but only because it contains a mixture of different colors that we can see. Cones are shaped like cones to gather as much light as possible, whilst rods are smaller and more narrow for picking up on lower light levels. Other animals and bugs can see colors we CAN’T. Science is crazy.

[@courtney4128]

Because there’s a God that created colors.

[@paigesienkiewicz6602]

love you💗

[@briannaharrison9174]

Your awesome Miranda

[@romanski5811]

*Your're You have to add an "re" to "Your".

[@spicymeatballs2thespicening]

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[@alexanderjones8071]

I Love You MIANDA COSGROVE MY HEART ❤️ Thank you so so very happy to you 😊 2:57

[@MontageMadness-0421]

I always wondered this when I was little

[@Thewintereden]

It's like irl icarly except less diy and more stem

[@Deltidion]

Megan has a youtube channel! 😂

[@daphnereese]

yas

[@octogonSmuggler]

My favorite color is Prussian Blue. It's the best color. Everyone can bite me.

[@RedHotMessResell]

I was about to comment, “this girl looks a lot like Miranda Cosgrove.” And then…. It was Miranda Cosgrove lol

[@abigailseay8575]

Those sound like words from sims 4

[@rocketgrunthyunho]

I wanted to like the video but it's at the perfect 69 likes so I'll just post a witty comment instead. This video is so wholesome I love it so much stay awesome Miranda.

[@preciouspayne723]

Love u

[@SkibidiCustomArc]

Bleen

[@Abbyonice]

iCarly!

[@karanaki_3256]

Mm, I love greebs ❤

[@milknkookies0613]

Purple is also a lie!

[@jamesworley9888]

I see videos saying every color we see is just a combination of 3 colors but according to my research this isn't true in the SLIGHTEST!!! We do not see 3 colors that make up all other colors that is an over simplified explanation that makes zero sense!!! We don't have red cones green cones and blue cones, we have long cones medium cones and short cones, it may be true that when cones overlap they give stronger signals than one cone type by itself would but red cones and green cones don't make yellow rather both cones are sensitive to yellow and this is why they both are stimulated when seeing yellow. An animals range is what determines how well it sees color and mantis shrimp just have a bunch of cones that overlap in the same visible spectrum we see which actually makes their color vision pretty good for hunting but far worse in comparison to our own. I also hate how many videos ask a question in the form of the assumption that we can't imagine new colors. Noone seems to have imagined new colors but we don't know this for sure. Even if the cones we already have where mildly wider in sensitivity we could have vision as expected by a Tetrachromat despite being Trichromatic. Also it's possible that our blue cone without natural lenses sees what birds see with this so called ''4th ultraviolet cone'' As a matter of fact a birds so called ''blue cone'' is closer to where we see cyan than blue and our so called blue cone is right between their blue and ultraviolet cones. Farther more its been said by certain science that our ''so-called blue cone'' after cataract surgery may actually be even more sensitive to ultraviolet than any other light. So it's very possible birds see ALMOST NOTHING we don't see.

[@nielskorpel8860]

These three comes are roughly called red, green and blue because of the wavelengths in which they are most sensitive; the sensitivity curve peaks there. Or rather, since we are using the labels 'red', 'green', and 'blue' because those are the colors you see if whatever wavelengths stimulates only one of the cones. At least that is my understanding of it. I wonder whether people with synestesia can experience new colours. Since these experiences of associated colour are somewhat involuntary, maybe they need not be bound by the limits of the eye.

[@jamesworley9888]

​@@nielskorpel8860 I feel like Humans would have to somehow be able to imagine UV even if they can't see it because our visual cortex is more advanced than any animal.

[@nielskorpel8860]

@@jamesworley9888 if we can see UV only with our 'blue' cone, and only after cataract surgery, I'd suspect we'd just see that as blue. After all, that is how our brain would interpret the signal from that cone. Although it might be a strikingly intense blue, due to the high UV sensitivity drowning out other colours in the mix. We do sometimes experience striking colours that we can technically see already, even though we might not encounter them often.

[@kyleselland]

Did you really make a wish or lately did you get that idea from someone else as an episode hint hint hint wink!

[@that_crayon_there]

Greeb 0:09

[@777TheUniverse]

So color blind people can’t imagine what other colors look like?

[@cherryfawn1717]

nope

[@user-hp8nm8yw1y]

Wtf

[@ez-g3090]

Not marriage material.

[@ez-g3090]

A few more years and she'll be damaged goods i bet.

[@meaIworm]

and you were a toilet birth

[@andreaholcock8992]

Weird thing to say

[@ianMissionunstoppable]

honestly i really love all those Color and my favorite is the pink One