Color | SciShow Tangents Podcast

[@Dee-jp7ek]

You can excuse Pooh wearing a shirt but the act of having pants lets us know that there's "stuff" to hide and yet he still chooses to be half naked at all times.

[@mooncowtube]

In the original illustrations for Winnie-the-Pooh by E. H. Shepard, Pooh doesn't have any clothes. He's just a bear. None of the animals wear clothes. The addition of a shirt for Pooh was done by Slesinger, who purchased marketing rights for the USA/Canada and added a red shirt. I would guess he did it just to add some striking colour, as colour was being used for the first time (Shepard's illustrations were just pen and ink).

[@CatBarefield]

Thank you Pooh historian 🩵

[@Jess-yi5gi]

I wholeheartedly agree that smokey the bear is much more lewd. Both the fact that he feels the need to wear pants but doesn't wear a shirt implying that he has *something* to cover up, and the WAY he looks at you is so intense, like he's daring you to ask. 😅 Ceri is right that Pooh is just full of fluff, and the shirt feels like a cute fashion statement from a little ole honey bear. Also, Sam's description of Donald Duck's butt had me rolling! What a fun open! 😂

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

smokey the bear is always like "only you can pervent forest fires!" but it seems like if you start a forest fire he will be the one perventing you

[@CyrynDragoon]

Yet another poem that makes me want a coffee table book of all the intro poems.... If I comment about this idea enough, do you think it might happen? Which would take more of my time? Watching every episode and transcribing the poems just so I can have my own personal coffee table book.... or commenting on every episode moving forward saying what a good idea it would be and try and make it happen that way... These are the questions that haunt me.

[@kylieebrook]

i would buy it!

[@nessidoe8080]

Yes please. Comment on every Podcast from now on and I'll support you. I'll like your comment and comment in your thread! We can do this!

[@CyrynDragoon]

Sound's like a plan! They're bound to notice eventually.

[@chrissik3102]

I would buy it too!

[@nzbozza]

Me also and I'm one of the mayors of butttown so I should have at least 1 extra vote

[@matthewbaker7513]

It's actually criminal how good this show is

[@JHaven-lg7lj]

That opener almost got away from you guys, that was awesome! Also, Smokey the Bear clearly has had thoughts. No pants is lewder, in the context of humans at least, but Smokey definitely has the sex thing going on

[@heartyunho0716]

Also also, Winnie the Pooh is not meant to be a real living bear, he is a child's stuffed player thing whereas Smokey is meant to portray a living creature who would theoretically have something to hide with those pants. I feel like Winnie the Pooh is also meant to be a child or at least childlike and Smokey is an adult

[@anangoohns]

Watching through the Tangents backlog, and listening to the history of the English word "color" is so interesting. I can't help but compare it to my other language, Ojibwe. While English is largely a noun-based language, Ojibwe is largely a verb-based language and that extends to colors. Anyone interested in linguistics, I'll share a bit here! We have a few set verbs around color, that essentially translate to "to be X color" (ex. waabishkaa means "it (inanimate object) is white") but we only have those verbs for black, white, red, blue/green, and orange/brown. Every other color is talked about by using a suffix added to another descriptive word. So for exampled if you were describing a dress that was a pink, you would use other things the same shade. Like the wild roses native to our traditional homelands are a light pink. So you would perhaps describe the dress as "being wild rose-colored" by adding the verb suffix -aande, which you stick on anything to say something is colored like the thing you attached it too. So you'd say it is oginiiwaande, or wild-rose + connector sound + verb suffix for "colored like."

[@ficmatagaea7813]

That's actually interesting! Does it affect how you see color? O. O

[@cllynch3653]

Never thought of Smokey as anything but the 'fire safe' bear.

[@ReillyHart]

Love that Hank chose orange as the color for "Is my orange your orange?"

[@resourceress7]

I love that your podcast is on KZbin. Would you please add human-edited captions? Auto-generated ones really don't make sense. Thanks!

[@massimocole9689]

0:50 Oh dear, Sam, I think you've added fuel to the fire around the "I'm a furry" slip up from the dragon episode.

[@mrjoe332]

Having Smokey's cardboard cutout in his room is not helping either

[@asafrodenstein9397]

Pooh has no secrets. I do not want to know smokey's secrets.

[@blessedveteran]

When you go to the toy store, stuffed bears often have just a shirt on, so I think that's what makes it more normal....and less weird 😂

[@kioshekat7931]

I feel like color emotions change over time. Like if you paint college rooms yellow because it makes people "calmer and happier" but you have a lot of bad experiences in college, they may start associating yellow rooms with negative emotions. and that weird pale teal blue color in hospitals makes me nervous and so I don't like things that are "hospital blue"

[@ficmatagaea7813]

Actually you're right! There's something called the ecological valence theory where basically how you view a certain colour depends on a cumulative experience (positive and negative) with objects that are in that colour!

[@hive_indicator318]

I started a big argument between some friends about that dress. Laurel and Yanni still haven't forgiven me.

[@AmishMan777]

I love this show so much…maybe I’m in a bubble, but it’s so refreshing to listen to a podcast that isn’t about politics. Not only that, but it’s a great balance of funny, entertaining, fascinating, and educational…love everything about the show. Thanks guys for the content 👍

[@HamsterLover16694]

wrt the science couch question: for example, painting the floor of a children's hospital with a trail of red will likely provoke a specific emotional reaction. It's basic color theory!

[@blessedveteran]

That is the first time I heard Sam be ok with not winning the fact off. lol "Thats understandable"...kinda threw me for a sec 😂

[@boopbiffsnose]

These guys are describing Smokey as lewd, but they don't even have the version that I've seen on billboards in my city, which is muscular and downright provocatively posed. Not that I'm complaining, mind. When it comes to fire safety, whatever gets your attention is fine with me.

[@unicornep1818]

Inky makes an appearance for its fans (36:44). Fun episode

[@amandaweires]

I'm pretty sure Disney added the shirt. The original Pooh and all of his friends don't have any clothing just like normal teddybears normal stuffed animals don't have clothing.

[@alangriffin8146]

Hank missed a golden opportunity to say, “It’s hard out here for a shrimp.”

[@Joey-kd8lj]

I think it would have been interesting to mention colour blindness (yes, I use British spelling) and tetrachromacy

[@rdklkje13]

That’s what the main SciShow episode is about.

[@Joey-kd8lj]

@@rdklkje13 Oh thanks.

[@SydneyLarrikin-ci2vz]

Just a swatch, lol Like Cartman with the Parental Revenge Center 😆 "We can go with the baby green in the living room, then maybe the classic brown for the rest of the house, or even the nut n corn crunch!"

[@rdklkje13]

Nice subtly trans-supportive thumbnail, thank you. Any little thing like this helps when there are so many authoritarians around on the hunt.

[@Tannerbot2k]

Not the way I expected a science podcast to start, but I'm down.

[@wonder_platypus8337]

Long time in the community but this is the first Scishow podcast I've seen. Loving it.

[@nzbozza]

​@@wonder_platypus8337 jealous about all the back catalogue you got to enjoy now

[@wonder_platypus8337]

@@nzbozza Yeah. I'm nearly caught up with Hank and John's other podcasts. And I still have a few thousand videos of vlogbrothers/brotherhood2.0 but I enjoy watching it. It's a strange time capsule considering they talk about so many broad topics.

[@aaronullah4262]

​@@wonder_platypus8337😊

[@katebackman7815]

fantastic episode! Sam said "smooth" 😂😂

[@janusatthegate6201]

Synesthesias see colors with emotion. Red with anger, etc.

[@ficmatagaea7813]

There are also synaesthetics that can see colour when they see letters/numbers, hear sounds, smell something, feel something, or taste something! The one we have the most for right now is for the one with letters/numbers, and it tends to be quite reliable. Also, another fun fact is that they can actually tell apart whether the colours they see are actually in reality or not, and even then, there are those who don't see it in their minds and know it somehow! The ones who can see the colors are called projectorsn

[@Kelly_Z]

I am obsessed with red uniformed teams beating blue uniformed teams! Is there an ultimate powerful color uniform that will always win? Or is it a rock-paper-scissors situation where red beats blue, blue beats green, and green beats red? I have so many questions! What about stripes and polka dots and leopard print and other patterns? Is the control uniform white or black or non-existent? What if one or both of the teams are color blind but the audience isn't?

[@ficmatagaea7813]

For the red question, it's actually related to how we view red. Something called the red effect that can be seen in sports and other domains (ex. Don't wear red to your interview, but do wear it if you want to get a date) whereby red affects you physiologically. Evolutionary wise it's cause red is naturally tied to danger/aggression, so red colored teams are viewed as stuff we should stay away from cause we are more wired to avoid loss at all costs.

[@elainebelzDetroit]

There's a vibrant sky blue (kinda the color blue chalk used to be in my childhood) that really energizes me - almost makes me feel hypomanic (I'm bipolar2 so I can say that). I was describing it to a friend, & she said, "Yeah, you want to bite it!" I've always felt something in my teeth when I see it, so I thought it was cool she saw it that way too! I'm trying to paint my home office that color, but what I got isn't quite right. I've painted one wall & am debating what to do - I don't want to waste paint, but I also don't want to mess with trying to mix other colors in (which is something I'm usually good at) in case I need more. What to do, what to do... Also, I'm painting my bedroom a really dark, deep purple - like a dark eggplant - because I find it really relaxing.

[@sk8rdman]

I would guess that mechanism (if any) behind the red vs blue uniforms has less to do with it strengthening those who wore red, but more to do with it somehow distracting or intimidating their opponents on some unconscious level. I almost never think about the colors I'm wearing, but I'm always experiencing the colors worn by people I engage with. That just makes more sense.

[@ficmatagaea7813]

Yeah, that's so true! You can look up red effect but red does have a pretty strong effect (even if a bit mixed at times) towards those who see it, cause we tend to perceive colour and immediately get associated to stuff.

[@thecoolaxolotlnova8523]

More hank is good

[@nottsork]

oh gods thanks for that seri now i have images of you wearign no pants under your camera angle

[@marcusm8009]

I've tasted yellow and blue 🎉

[@markedis5902]

Talking about the red placebo pill, I was waiting for someone to link to the matrix

[@mrjoe332]

Didn't expected Scishow Tangents to prove 40K Orks are correct!

[@DriftingStudent]

I put this on and came back into the room just to hear that Smokey the bear is sexier 🗿

[@NicholasHay1982]

Green light therapy is an emerging field of research in the treatment of migraines. Not really vetted enough yet for the podcast, maybe, but very interesting and from personal experimentation, efficacious? Check it out if you suffer migraines or cluster headaches.

[@ragerequiem6323]

I have had led lights that I can change the color of in my home for a long time and way before I even heard of green light therapy I used the lights on green to help reduce my photosensitivity while still being able to see and do some admittedly limited things.

[@NicholasHay1982]

@@ragerequiem6323 yeah I have a similar experience. I'd conjecture that further research would reveal simply that low levels of green light give some of the benefits of complete darkness while still allowing some limited ability to see.

[@gljames24]

Okay, but can you tell me why nobody seems to think Cyan is part of the rainbow, but include the tertiary color orange. The opposite of orange is azure and nobody seems to know that color.

[@Scereyaha]

Our brains saw a bunch of different waves of radiation coming off of everything around us and said "Woag, I'm going to colour-code this shit". Which makes me wonder if wanting to colour-code things to categorize them is more deeply ingrained in us as a construct, more than being a more emergent construct the way we think of it.

[@ficmatagaea7813]

It's actually that we tend to categorise stuff by instinct and organise our info in a way that actually makes sense to us (kinda known as the knowledge based view in psychology) ! And colour categorization can vary depending on cultures (like for example, countries with languages that differentiate between dark blue and. Light blue (siniy and goluboy) can tell them apart better!

[@WantedVisual]

I looked up a color swatch and... Yeah, no, Hank was right, it's pretty much what you'd expect.

[@sativaburns6705]

Yogi is just a hat and a tie...

[@SciShowTangents]

dear lord.....

[@aaran2329]

I gotta google this baby poop colour 😆😆

[@outistynnanyt5153]

"2015 was almost 10 years ago" Haha oh what hyperbole... Wait...

[@williamjohnson5022]

Of course the folks in blue lost the fight, everyone knows red makes it go faster.

[@ponyote]

Only you can prevent forest fires.

[@SeeBlakeSmith]

I’m watching this for the first time in July of 2024….the way the bear conversation & Hank’s comment about Smokey aged is amazing 😂 I know it’s a serious conversation in 2024, but I was so unprepared 😂

[@raf74hawk12]

Red ones go faster. It's well established

[@emilygrae]

Just wanted to say that his name is Smokey Bear. Not Smokey the bear.

[@ScienceBang]

If I know anything about colour management for colour reproduction (which i do) then im in for a treat!

[@kitsu_noshi]

The german word for color is "Farbe" and it comes from the root word for "design".

[@alexwhattam547]

Could the red=bad also connect with poisonous animals ending up red? Like did some ancient human get traumatized by a snake and now red gives off bad vibes?

[@ficmatagaea7813]

It's more of red is associated with danger/aggression actually! XD and we as humans kinda go "NOPE I'M OUT"

[@Kaitybardot]

I mean they are funny

[@janusatthegate6201]

Yet sanguine means calm, right?

[@dead1097]

I somehow clicked to just the right time in this video for Hank to say the line I was trying to get to from the audio version, My hyperfixation needs to calm down lol

[@OneBentMonkey]

Ability to sense existential terror should be factored into taxonomic classifications of critters #wannabeabarnacle

[@JoeDavis2]

Ceri is either highly caffeinated or on crack in this episode.

[@zlaynie]

😂❤🎉

[@arthursamuel301]

First 😈 Rewatching this because I was late for the première.

[@geraldpringle]

It’s Smokey Bear not Smokey the Bear en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Bear

[@terranovarubacha5473]

Neurons at 27:15

[@terranovarubacha5473]

Could you run the poll again and add Chewbacca?