How Language Changes How We See Color | Compilation

[@victor9]

Yeah, I speak a Bantu language from southern African, and I remember asking my language teacher why we don't have names of other colours. She had no clue! Even though we have no words for important colours like blue or green. Green tree, we call it a healthy tree, and the blue sky is a clear sky. Somehow, we describe things and automatically understand what colour you are talking about even though there is no word for it.

[@kaleidoslug7777]

That is so cool!

[@dieselexhausted]

This is so much more fascinating than this comment got credit for! My brain doesn't have a map for that concept, which makes it so much cooler to me that certain cultures do operate this way.

[@QuiteMerryIAm]

Oh that’s so cool

[@Nee96Nee]

That's really cool information, so am I correct in perceiving that Bantu does contain words for other colors, just not blue and green?

[@ericgreen3533]

Pp

[@ProfessorJayTee]

In college, our chemistry instructor had monochromatic vision. He would ask us, "Is this liquid yellow or blue?" during experiments. It was rather worrisome.

[@OldManBOMBIN]

"Is this liquid yellow, or blue?" "Neither, it's green." "....... Uh-oh."

[@lococomrade3488]

​@@decorativewingdings flavor names are printed on the bottle....

[@Beergardening]

Hahaha I met my wife by being asked to teach her class graphic design. I'm dichromatic lol. Probably also concerning for that class.

[@lococomrade3488]

@@Beergardening Is this the dude from Catch Me If You Can?

[@janmelantu7490]

Fun fact: the glass used in those colorblind-correcting glasses is also used in amateur astrophotography. It’s exceptionally good at filtering the yellow wavelengths emitted by Sodium lamps, reducing the effect of light pollution

[@dieselexhausted]

WAIT does this mean if I were wearing the glasses on a clear night, I could see the stars more clearly?

[@LittleTreeBlue]

That IS a fun fact! Thanks!

[@humanmonsters]

My old boss saw everything as black, white and gray unless he was really really close to something. I had a taken a picture of a tiger Lilly that was growing outside the door to the business we worked at and he asked me where it was, I took him outside and showed him when he got really close and could see the orange he teared up!!! It was so heartbreaking! I had never heard of someone having that kind of colorblindness. I really do feel bad for people who are colorblind. I have made several color wheel sheets for C.B people I have known over the years.

[@LittleTreeBlue]

It sounds to me like he lost color vision due to some issue - I work in Opthamology and some patients lose color vision due to medicine toxicity or because of severe glaucoma. If he could see it up close but not far away, it sounds like he just has a reduced number of cones. But I’m not a doctor, so I don’t know about rarer stuff.

[@halfwayinfinate6342]

I have a friend who has a whole different kind of colourblindness. She can see all the colours except blue but the colours she can see are shifted. red becomes pink, orange becomes yellow, yellow is green, pink is deep red, blue is purple, green and purple are just green and purple. Apparently it's something to do with the chemical process, it scrambles the signal that gets sent to her brain and it runs in her family. It's really interesting and I wish I knew more about her kind of colourblindness.

[@terranovarubacha5473]

How does she even know that what she sees is different from the norm? Do we even know that we generally experience colour the same way as each other?

[@hellobaby5112]

That’s extremely rare most women don’t have color blindness in fact it’s more common for the opposite.

[@Kasperhp7410]

Combining the words green and blue to make the word "grue" made me automaticly try it in Danish (grøn and blå) and ended at "grå", which literally translates to grey.

[@jumpander]

A (equal) combination of green and blue is commonly called "cyan".

[@Kasperhp7410]

@@jumpander You're right, mixing those colors would produce a cyan, though it was something they mentioned breafly in the video, that the gruping of greens and blues in one of the studies was nicknamed grue, not that they actually combined the colors. On a side note; I usualy default to call the cyan nuances turquoises but have also heard other call them aquas.

[@jumpander]

@@Kasperhp7410 For me Cyan is an even mixture of green and blue. Aqua is a Cyan that's more on the green side and more pastel. And Turquoise is a Cyan that's more on the blue side and generally darker. Although this is subjective naming and Wikipedia or some other site may be more accurate.

[@Kasperhp7410]

And now that I've looked at a color scheme, I do notice that turquoise is way greener than cyan and aqua.

[@greniacd8396]

Hey, this works in German, too! Grün + Blau = Grau I never noticed this

[@veryberry39]

Regarding the last story, once I started getting into watercolor painting, I found myself looking at things and wondering what color I would use to paint them. Sure, that flower is yellow, but is it cadmium, naples...? Much of the time (especially with shadows), I can't figure it out. But it IS interesting how learning the language seems to "open up" more colors.

[@jessical4866]

Only problem with noticing all these color differences is when the people around you get frustrated and tell you to just pick a blue already, or get bored when you explain greys have other colors in them.

[@otaku3OBSESSION]

My partner has some kind of deuteranomaly, and their color glasses are this deep red color, that when me or other standard-vision folks wear just looks red, but to him, it really doesn’t at all, and he’s able to distinguish his reds from his greens significantly better. Purples normally look gray to him, so this make a big difference!

[@julesverneinoz]

We discovered this in the office when someone pulled up the Colour Blindness test on a lark. While we all passed the test, as we were discussing the images we found that on a handful of images we saw different colors of red vs yellow. It's that moment of disbelief but knowing that your co-worker for 3 years were definitely not pulling your leg so you have to believe that is what they genuinely saw. The majority of Japanese also considers 'green' (midori) to be a subhue of 'blue' (aoi) which I didn't realize I asked an elderly man for directions and proceeded to look for a building with a 'blue' sign and found none. Eventually I found the building and it was sporting a 'green' sign. I think colour perception is both innate and acquired. I think we should be able to see differences in color hues even if we don't know their names, but knowing their name would help to identify the color better for the purpose of communicating. For example, recently I saw a 'blue' color but don't know the actual name. This shade of blue I've seen in images of robin eggs, so I told my friend that it's blue like robin eggs. Later on I realized that robin eggs have various shades of blue too, so I added...closer to the green shade, like Tiffany's green. This is the color naming process of an amateur XD.

[@LittleTreeBlue]

Haha - that’s really interesting! And actually that shade of blue is often literally called either Robin’s Egg blue or Tiffany Blue!

[@ElicBehexan]

My wife has Achromatopsia. Nobody else in her family has ever shown any hint of color blindness. She exhibits all the forms of the blindness that is normally associated with Achromatopsia, in fact, at age 13 she was enrolled in the Texas School for the Blind.

[@demonflowerchild]

So she’s just blind?

[@ElicBehexan]

@@demonflowerchild in the blind community there are "totals" and "blinks." "Blinks" have partial sight. Not enough to see distances, but enough to navigate an unfamiliar room without a cane. In fact, I've had friends who see about as well as she does with her glasses without theirs. But their vision is correctable where hers is about as good as their vision is without correction. Also, when she is outside in the day without her 1) regular dark glasses 2) wrap around sunglasses and 3) a wide brim hat then she is totally unable to see. It is also painful.

[@evantaylor-hermes9327]

@@ElicBehexan Interesting to read about! I have similar vision difficulties from an unrelated condition (oculocutaneous albinism - also comes with a reduced visual acuity, photophobia, and nystagmus, just color perception is unaffected), so hard explaining to people that sunlight and bright light... physically hurts 😅

[@ElicBehexan]

@@evantaylor-hermes9327 she was told for years that was what she had, but I think it was because it was easier to understand than what she really had.

[@robertcoulson483]

Very well done! One question: A friend who served three tours in Vietnam as a highly decorated Army sniper, is color blind. He said this color blindness allowed him to see shapes and forms without the vast plate of the jungle's greens "Camoflauging" his vision perception, thus allowing him to spot his target(s) before the saw him. Any thoughts on this?

[@mknewlan67]

That’s almost like he was literally born to snipe in jungle environments.

[@biblicallyaccuratecockroach]

Not the first time I heard something like this, it's fun to hear an actual second hand account. Shapes and colours compete in our brain for attention, and colours often come out on top. Not being able to see colour would have removed that distraction, as well as trained your friend's brain to process shapes and movement better. In WWI (I think, it's been a while since I read it) warships' hulls were sometimes painted in large grey-scale patterns to mask their sillouette against the glimmer of the sea waves; like a tiger's stripes are meant to break its sillouette when it's hiding among the trees, making it harder to see at a glance/distance, and that coupled with the fact that the tiger's prey can't exactly see red/orange makes the tiger pretty much invisible to them even if it stands out to us. Colourbling spotters were used to spot these painted ships, since these patterns didn't work on them. Super cool stuff 👍

[@susanduarte6888]

Read about the contributions of artists in Ghost Army of World War II. Optical illusion figures prominently. Fascinating!

[@Revolus10n]

It’s been like 5 years since I’ve gone back to this channel and this mans still has the same haircut/style. Legendary

[@artwithvie]

I just love that this video came out as I'm diving eight into color theory for my painting! I just love watching all the episodes and shows toy guys make. Thank you for the work you do to just put information out there !!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@JeffVanRooy]

This video about how we were all taught the wrong primary colors as children (and this still happens to this day) blew my mind... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIfLcmRulMmgnZI

[@artwithvie]

@@JeffVanRooy the changed the definition of primary. Do it can really change the way you see it. Like just pick any three solora and make a color wheel they won't all be the same but they all have something to offer.

[@artwithvie]

@@JeffVanRooy I've also seen this video and a few other from her color theory video

[@capnstewy55]

I worked with a tetrochromatic person and they were constantly annoyed that everyone else couldn't differentiate yellows.

[@jumpander]

I'd like to hear more about that. Was that person a female? Did she say how she saw the world differently (describing qualia)? Did you compare your color vision?

[@jonhu4127]

It's equally fun reading black text that's been blacked out. People hated me for doing that. I'd like to meet your coworker.

[@purplealice]

I'm a female tetrachromat, and I have no trouble differentiating different shades of yellow. I just don't *LIKE* the color yellow very much.

[@capnstewy55]

It had to do with refractive indexes with polarized light microscopy. When a crystal structure has an RI above the oil it fades into shades of yellow which for most people quickly become indistinguishable but not for her.

[@jonhu4127]

@@purplealice I'm a male tetrachromat and I hate how many times I've seen color vision tests asking "which of these "single color" pictures is different. Hint: they're all slightly different and most of those tests start with 3 shades of yellow plus one of goldenrod

[@Astrorenity]

my first encounter with pink noise was on my speakers test feature, a lot better than white noise in my opinion now I know why

[@SegmentW]

Thank you for this Scishow team. I'm enjoying it right as you read :) Hope you're all doing well!

[@glenngriffon8032]

So I'm not crazy because I can't sleep unless I have a fan running even in winter

[@anyascelticcreations]

Fascinating episode! I have a hard time imagining not differentiating between green and blue. Or not thinking of purple as distinct.

[@anyascelticcreations]

I also find it fascinating to learn about the different "colors" of sound. Personally, I like pink and brown noise. I keep a fan going that has a combination of them both. Unfortunately, that means that I no longer hear the rain outside. But I don't hear the neighbors as well either.

[@Valeforer]

If you are an english speaking native, think of this: For you, light blue is... light blue. For me (Spanish speaking native) that is not light blue. That is celeste, a different category, like pink is to red. After watching a (different) video about how ancient languages didn't have "blue" and how naming things may make us pecieve differently, I realised that just days before watching that I told to a friend "I hate pink because my favourite colour is red, but you cannot have a light enough red that is not pink"... I just see pink as not light red, but pink. I don't see "Aquamarine" as green or blue, I see it as aquamarine, but before I formed that distinction I would have say it is green, maybe celeste-ish green. I think I would see purple easily as "kinda reddish blue" if I didn't have a word for it.

[@anyascelticcreations]

@@Valeforer Yes, that's very interesting. To me, I think of blues with different names. Light blue, or sky blue, or denim blue, or royal blue, etc. I definitely differentiate between red and pink. And I like aquamarine as commonly seen in the gemstone, but dislike turquoise or teal. Usually I prefer my blues blue and my greens green and only like a few shades in between. Each shade is very different to me. I think of the different shades of purple differently, too. Actually, the same with greens. Green comes in so many different shades. I suspect I would think of them all differently even if I didn't have names for them. Considering I'd really have to think to name all the greens. I just think of what plants they look like. Colors are so very distinct to me. Even the tiny variations. It's weird for me to think that some people don't differentiate. I think it's cool that you think of light and dark blue as different as we here think of red and pink as different colors. Hmm. What about yellow? To me, unless it's mixed with something else, it's just yellow that is more or less bright. I don't think of light yellow as being different enough to need a separate name. Do you call it something different in Spanish? Like pink or celeste?

[@Valeforer]

@@anyascelticcreations Not generally, no, there isn't any "major" category for yellow that english doesn't have. VERY dark yellow is brown like in english. I personally differentiate between "yellow", "mustard", "golden", "ducky yellow", but these are all categories of just yellow linguistically.

[@anyascelticcreations]

@@Valeforer Okay, like how I use different names for shades of blue but don't specify have a name for light blue like pink for light red.

[@stephanieparker1250]

Great video! I’m really curious about how other cultures identify colors through language usage.

[@psychotic2563]

I'm from Romania and I got really confused when I made friends in Germany because they called everything from light blue, turquoise, cyan and so on green. After that I had a hour-long discussion with him if he was colorblind 😅. the same was true for everything from violet to magenta, purple and indigo because he just called these blue. After that I asked him if the sky or the ocean has the same color as a plum or a thistle flower and he said no. That was my tipping point of going insane at that time.

[@seattlegrrlie]

I learned at a very young age not to talk to people about color. It wasn't until I got this smart phone with its camera that I realized how different I see the world vs how most people do. I see into the UV, I see a lot more colors especially in flowers and leaves. Sometimes, a shirt or dye will be far, far different. It doesn't really effect my daily life, it's just kind weird. I used to really, really hate movies and tv. So flat so dull

[@twocvbloke]

I remember having a light-hearted argument about the colour of a car when he was young walking him home from school, it was a bright pink Nissan Micra which I said was a very gareish colour, and he kept telling me it was white, I knew he had some kind of colourblindness at the time but didn't realise that he literally saw things so differently to the point things that had red in them lacked any colour from his perspective...

[@LEDewey_MD]

Seems to be some questions in the comments about RGB versus red-blue-yellow color systems. Red-blue-yellow system concerns the primary PIGMENTS, and are used to mix physical substances together to create all the other pigments. (E.g., blue and yellow paint mixed together make green paint.) RGB (Red Green Blue) color system involves the primary COLOR WAVELENGTHS, which can be blended to form all other WAVELENGTHS. (E.g., red plus green LIGHT makes YELLOW LIGHT). (Maybe this would be a good topic for SciShow in the future!) :)

[@JeffVanRooy]

The true primary colors that we SHOULD be taught as children are Cyan - Magenta - Yellow and not Red - Blue - Yellow. You make Blue by mixing Cyan & Magenta so Blue cannot be a primary color. You make Red by mixing Yellow & Magenta so Red cannot be a primary color. The sky is not Blue it's Cyan! :)

[@whitcwa]

Red blue yellow is mainly used in teaching art. It has a much smaller gamut than the cyan magenta and yellow used in printing. Blue and red can't be a good choices for both additive and subtractive primaries.

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

Steppenwolf cofounder and lead singer John Kay is a monochromatic. In his case his eyes are also overly sensitive to light, which is why on album covers and in photographs he is always seen sporting shades.

[@purplealice]

Mark Zuckerberg is a bichromat, which is why Facebooks' main color scheme is blue.

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

@@purplealice All the money in the world won't let you buy a new pair of eyes.

[@purplealice]

@@ThisTrainIsLost Not *yet*. They're working on prosthetic eyes. Meanwhile, *enough* money will buy you a pair of color-blindness-correcting glasses.

[@gamernick1533]

I've never been able to figure out my colour blindness. I know it's mild (or believe so) as I can pass pretty much all colour blindness tests, or at least well enough to get a pass and have no listed deficiency but I just see greens (and possibly some blues) as much darker. I didn't realise until my early 20s when someone looked at my monitor screen and how I had set the colours to it, my housemates couldn't use it as I had dark greens pegged to black and couldn't tell. It hardly affects me as far as I know but I don't know what I'm missing. My partner often looks at cloudy skies and comments on how beautiful they are but it's just a grey sky to me... thinking of getting her tested for tetrachromacy because she insists they are colourful and she assumes that I just can't see the colours because of my mild CB. Pretty sure it's her vision that's off (better?), not mine and it might also explain why my daughter can see what she sees if there may be a link to colour deficiency from parents/grandparents.

[@TheFeldhamster]

Color blindness is much more rare in females because they have a "backup copy" of the genes for that (XX chromosomes). About 10% of males have some form of color blindness, while only about 0.8% of females do.

[@PLuMUK54]

When I took my driving test, I was asked to read the number on the green car. I looked and the only green car I could see was a long way off, so, being long-sighted, I read its number plate. The examiner said that I was wrong, and to read again. I read it again, and he looked at me and asked which car I was looking at. He was shocked when I pointed at the "green" car, it was apparently red, and the examiner couldn't even read the number, it was too far away - he had to walk closer to check it. I cannot distinguish between red and green, so traffic light colour is meaningless. I have to look at which, top or bottom, is alight. When I look at plants, I know they are green, but only because I've been told they are.

[@silvussol8966]

Cuttlefish 1: “Is that thing purple?” Cuttlefish 2: “No idea, you should go check.” **Cuttlefish 1 swims over to the thing and rubs on it** Cuttlefish 1: “Yep, that feels like purple.”

[@5610winston]

I see colors what passes for normally, but I find that polarized amber shades give me better visual contrast when driving in daylight, and yellow glasses at night.

[@DoggosAndJiuJitsu]

Interesting thumbnail actress choose, SciShow.

[@rogue3398]

YInMn or International Klien Blue, copper carbonate, the cadmium spectrum (black, red, orange, yellow, white), Scheele's Green, and manganese Violet makes the perfect artificial pigment spectra if you're the kind of artist who mulls their own paint, which this has reminded me that I want to do.

[@nickacelvn]

Beautiful technology. This is how it SHOULD be used. To help each other.

[@PaulSteMarie]

What the heck? You most certainly can have six atom carbon rings with single bonds: it's called cyclohexane. The benzene rings you're describing don't have three double bonds and three single bonds; the pi orbitals are delocalized and spread evenly across the entire ring.

[@elizabethmcglothlin5406]

My late husband could (maybe) see color but was born with only 8 crayons in his box. I had a maroon car which needed new doors. The doors he found and installed to tomato soup red. It made me wonder what shade of gray/beige he saw as 'red'. I suspect I might be a 'super-see-er'.

[@anyascelticcreations]

That's really interesting! And also very sweet of your husband to replace the doors. Yet got the wrong color. I've known people who didn't seem to know that they were color blind. They definitely were, though. I also think I'm a super-see-er. I used to work at a bead store. We worked with beads with very specific and clearly labeled colors. Swarovski crystals, for example. I never met anyone else aside from one coworker who could see the differences in all the Swarovski crystals. The two of us could, though. PS, I'm like that with smells, too.

[@cislife7140]

You never seen that brain games where they explain that females see more colors then men, it helped with foraging to tell the difference between toxic and non toxic plants while men can be mostly colorblind because we are better at spacial relation because it helped with hunting, example; a women can see over 8 shades of red while a man will only see 3.... It's really quite interesting

[@anyascelticcreations]

@@cislife7140 Yes, I've heard that, too. I've never met a woman who was colorblind. But plenty of men who at least partially were. Yet the men could always see better in the dark than the women could. I can barely see at all in the dark, but have practically perfect color vision. I've heard that the better a person is with one, the worse they are with the other. I'm sure you're right that men and women were designen with vision specific for their tasks. Ie, hunting or gathering.

[@jagmaster6595]

It’s also a sex related trait. A women needs to have the color blind gene on both X chromosomes to be color blind while a man just need one

[@demonflowerchild]

@@anyascelticcreations my mother is color blind

[@dallasrover5515]

Boy am I glad that William failed to make quinine. Purple is my favorite color by far. It just makes me so happy.

[@catherineleslie-faye4302]

White Pink and Brown Noise sounds like surf flowing over different grades of broken rock at high speed.

[@Hezmarglive]

Ok i clearly haven't been watching sci show enough. If around 3% of the world women are estimated to tetrachomatic, this explain why alot of women identify very specific color more clearly.

[@carlyblack42]

I was thinking the same thing! Also the comment about how a percentage of men have some color blindness. It could be that mant men really CAN'T tell the difference between colors that lots of women can. Very interesting

[@jumpander]

This can either be due to men being red-green color-deficient or a small percentage women being tetrachromatic. I bet it's mostly the former.

[@purplealice]

There is a theory that women identify specific colors because they know there are names for different shades. Men don't often get to learn that vocabulary. The webcomic XKCD did a large survey about this, demonstrating that women know more nuanced color words than men - men say "that shirt is blue" when it might be described as "sky blue" or "navy blue". One year for Christmas, my aging father gave me a sweater he thought was purple, but it was a sort of vareigated knit which included blues, purples, and greys. I didn't have the heart to tell him he was wrong about the color - I just wore it with dark purple jeans.

[@julianaylor4351]

I always have to adjust the colours on an television I use, to try and make them less unnatural to my colour vision.

[@catharinepizzarello4784]

The crashing of the Sea. Breathing and heartbeat.

[@spencerhixonauthor]

I would like to add that a certain level of background "white" noise may help those with ADHD, but studies are, as of yet, inconclusive. For me, though, I used to work at restaurants where there was a relatively low level of background noise. COVID put a stop to that, and all the worry and stress made my ADHD ramp up like never before. So I tried listening to soundtracks while I worked but sometimes they would distract me and they always ended too soon. Then I discovered white noise videos on youtube, namely thunderstorms (rain itself didn't work as well - there's something about the added randomness of the thunder...). They last 10+ hours. In one week I was able to accomplish what I had been trying to get my brain to do for 2 years. I cannot imagine more concrete evidence that it works for me. My personal theory is that the part of my brain that is constantly seeking dopamine and wanting to be distracted was focused on the white noise, which let the rest of my brain actually get down to business. Whatever the reason, there is no doubt in my mind that there is a correlation between background noise and concentration in people with ADHD (though studies also suggest that it must not be too loud or it has the opposite effect).

[@briancherry8088]

10:07 - My son cant see the "red" leaves in fall, thinking they are all "green". It sounds like he might see them both as the yellow you were mentioning.

[@flyingeagle3898]

probably not. Red-Green colorblindness is the most common type of colorblindness but they still see yellow as mostly separate, although perhaps the exact boundaries of what is " yellow would change for him

[@TheRuthPo]

I bought a pair for my Dad. Apparently, his colorblindness must be too severe for them to work well - he also found that they worked better outdoors than indoors.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

I ask around: Want some science youtuber to check out? Or in other words: Want some recommendations from a fellow science-fan?

[@purplemoon_alexx]

I assume youre talking about the EnChroma glasses; They were originally meant for glass blowers, the flame being a bright yellowish orange because of the sodium contained in the glass. The glasses are made to cancel out those colors so they can see their glass work through it. These specific glasses failed miserably at that, but a few colorblind people realised they helped them distinguish better between red and green, since the overlap in those colors (aka yellow) was simply removed. It's pretty logical that they won't work for everybody since color blindness varies from person to person, and the EnChroma company kinda feeds off of relatives who aren't that knowledgeable about color blindness

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@melissarose7488]

My brother is colorblind and we got a game about trying to guess and name colors. Out of the 10 ppl who played, he won. I don’t know how or why but it was insane because he’s never been accurate with most colors

[@ericrawlins8444]

Very interesting (one might say "colourful") look at the way we see the world around us (though, having done some research on the nature vs. nurture aspect of colour perception, I felt the section on this aspect of the topic was short-changed...but it would really take one or more videos on this subject to adequately cover it, so no real complaint there). Was going to say you guys did an amasing job with getting the grammar right (16:26: "...neither of these ideas provides...", well done!), especially compared to all the other grammar-disaster videos on KZbin, but then I heard (and read!) "the frequency of the waves are important" (17:29) and "your hearing system and music is based" (18:16), to name a few. Come on, guys, you can do better! Oh, and speaking of "come on, guys," how come there aren't any women on the crew (or have I just not watched enough of these? Guess I'll have to subscribe to see if the ladies are represented)? Anyway, thanks for the informative, well-reasoned, and balanced forays into the world of science and how it makes sense of the phenomena we experience!

[@matchrocket1702]

Great job by the presenters. Thanks.

[@kerzwhile]

Great compilation. Reaping the benefits of so many years of excellent content is paying off! 😉🙂

[@loturzelrestaurant]

I ask around: Want some science youtuber to check out? Or in other words: Want some recommendations from a fellow science-fan?

[@briantannenbaum8110]

@@loturzelrestaurant sure

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@@briantannenbaum8110 Nice

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@@briantannenbaum8110 About you check out Tier Zoo, Sci Man Dan and Sci Show for the start, who are all examples of so-called 'soft Science'? And then we see about what's next, later, if you like.

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

Speaking of hiss, pick up a copy of Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" album. The only instruments used are a pair of electric guitars and a pair of amps. The sound on the album consists entirely of feedback. I happen to find it relaxing but I'm speaking only for myself. I believe that it's on KZbin so you can check it out before investing in it. Personally, I recommend listening to it through headphones.

[@mattphorwich]

Great episode!

[@danielchoi4490]

What if a cuttlefish's night camouflage is based on memory? Like they know an object is a certain color in the day, so they change to that color. If a cuttlefish is given something to camouflage with something they've never seen or felt before in the dark, can they camouflage the color as well?

[@loturzelrestaurant]

I ask around: Want some science youtuber to check out? Or in other words: Want some recommendations from a fellow science-fan?

[@TheGbelcher]

I like this compilation style

[@anonymousdratini]

One of my favourite things about Japanese is that there is a word for blue (青い）and there is a word for green (緑）but 青い is an older word, and 緑 came to be in the middle ages, but only came into popular use after world war 2. So some words describing green things still use 青い like vegetables, and weirdly enough, traffic lights.

[@TeomanasAbramovas]

Those things are really exciting to know. But I wonder. Is there any kind of glasses or lenses which you can see the world like a color blind person?

[@jenluvjake]

You missed an opportunity to say "colors aren't just Pigments of your imagination"

[@sschmidtevalue]

At times, I have detected a slight difference between my left and right eye in the red end of the spectrum.

[@Kieranlb05]

My guess would be this could be why I always have a fan on at night. Even when it's freezing

[@terryenby2304]

Anyone else find brown noise terrifying? Not because of the myths… just… it made my tummy knot up and I wanted to hide from it.

[@tarantularose]

calming to me

[@petevenuti7355]

I wonder how unique that is, like not having an inner voice

[@The_Vanished]

Beautiful just beautiful

[@YoutubeGuptaJi]

Please make an episode on Carbon footprint, and how we can reduce it. I just found out how much pollution we cause by using non-biodegradable soaps in our dishwasher, laundry and shower.

[@minnymouse4753]

To any men feeling inferior . On that color thing. A Korean study with blind folds and blue light and electro magnetic fields increase sense or something thing . And it only affect some men not all men only men . So don't feel inferior.. and hope my comment doesn't get blocked for pointing positive discoveries of being male

[@dawn-from-the-lab]

I have a younger brother that saw color until he was around 13 and then lost the ability to see all color. Now he only sees in grayscale. We thought he was lying at first, but he really can’t see color. We haven’t been able to figure out why though.

[@lolicon453]

Some days I want to be a mantis shrimp, so I can feel like a guy on a whole salad of drugs

[@heavymetalbassist5]

might steal "whole salad of drugs" for reddit

[@aji_jacobson]

There's actually some research that mantis shrimp can see fewer colours than us. While they have more cones then us, their brains are much smaller and less developed and as such, aren't as good at mixing the signals from each cone to see in-between colours. So while we use our three cones to see millions of colours, they may only use their twelve to see a few dozen.

[@lolicon453]

@@aji_jacobson I was imagining humans with the eyes of mantis shrimp, modified to suit our size, so my comment might have been a little inaccurate

[@lolicon453]

@@heavymetalbassist5 Better use a screenshot or credit then, in r/BrandNewSentence or something

[@fancyorangemittens]

Electrician Hank is f'n adorable.

[@catharinepizzarello4784]

Awesome!

[@glory2cybertron]

it's fascinating how expensive color used to be, especially blue and purple, that only royalty and nobility could afford it for the artists and artesans they hired.

[@jennifer-joey]

I absolutely love your hair

[@jaqihegland6232]

Did he just say that colors are a pigment of our imagination?

[@DCII]

I was hoping they would compare color pie uses and descriptions in different cultures and the different languages there in.

[@markdaniels9606]

Wow! That’s a lot to think about! So very interesting!

[@loturzelrestaurant]

I ask around: Want some science youtuber to check out? Or in other words: Want some recommendations from a fellow science-fan?

[@ChappalMarungi]

​@@loturzelrestaurantSure, I'd love more recommendations!

[@earlaker]

This explains why my wife and I argue all the time about whether something is blue or green! Unfortunately, it doesn't prove which of us is right. ;(

[@drextrey]

Word of wisdom, Missy always right. 😄

[@lenabreijer1311]

Statistically your wife is probably right.

[@mycenaeangal9312]

Figure out who has better color differentiation and then they're probably right. Like if you can perceive small changes in colors better than she can you're probably right. If you can't, then she is.

[@1ntwndrboy198]

Maybe they can come up with a blackest black to use for solar panel technology to make it more efficient

[@LokiBJH]

White noise is always too loud for me. Pink noise is better but, brown noise is the perfect frequency for me. This explains why the sound of rain and rushing or falling water helps me sleep.

[@Deuphus]

How do we know that cuttlefish can match their background in total darkness? If it's totally dark how do we know what color the cuttle fish is until we turn on a light?

[@anyascelticcreations]

I would assume they used night vision technology. But, if our cameras can record the cuttlefish in almost total darkness, who's to say the cuttlefish can't see just as well?

[@anyascelticcreations]

@@Deuphus I really can only guess. But I'm guessing they can detect the world in ways that we don't yet understand.

[@LupinoArts]

That's interesting: on the mini-preview when hovering the mouse over the 1:27 mark on the time line, I see a "W" in the circle; but on the actual image, i see nothing...

[@cronialpaler]

Strange that I have an oddity to Yellow and Orange that in a gradient, my mind can never decipher the difference. Seperately though, I can.

[@LEDewey_MD]

Great video.

[@andthatsshannii]

I might be wrong, but I feel like I remember Philosophy Tube saying her mum was the one who they found could perceive colours between green and blue

[@kittimcconnell2633]

Pretty sure my boss is a Tetrachromat, she can see shades of colors no one else can see. I've known her over 25 years, she's amazing.

[@realulli]

A buddy of mine seems to be missing the red and green cones. However, unlike you claim at the beginning, he can't see just 100 colors. While he can't perceive red or green, the dynamic range for the rest is greatly extended. He once claimed, he can spot speed traps (automatic speed cameras) about as well as we "normals" can - if they were painted red.

[@Jaem-ml4lx]

Im not color blind but still use color blind settings in warzone cause it looks brighter and more colorful for some reason

[@FoolSilver]

Black and white are all I see, in my infancy. Red, yellow and or green then came to be.

[@noelhutchins7366]

There are several thousand colors being interpreted as browns by regular eyesight; there are neon-beiges. There're three color-wheels of potentially visible spectrums; least-red is a double-negative-color, an edge, neighboring primary-red's prime-color-wheel; opposite, grander-red's over-spectrum. Any color-combination involving the grander or double-negative color-bands are imperceivable without the ability to see in that edge of bandwidth.

[@noelhutchins7366]

Color light+ color light-filter= subjective color. Any combination of light-filters against narrow-spectrums of light, reveal new and different aspects of color itself; the green color we see contains its own rainbow of incandescences and flourescence, but with these lights and our eyes' light-filter, its only mundane green.

[@jumpander]

@@noelhutchins7366 I wear glasses with differently colored lenses. The right lense is purple/blurple and the left orange-ish. With these filters I can differentiate Greens from Yellows (e.g. limette/charteuse colors), Cyans from Greens and Blues (Green-Aqua/GreenCyan) better. Also Purple from Blue is easier to differentiate. (I'm not color-deficient resp. colorblind.) Cyan becomes almost an entirely different color. Still Cyan but it's like comparing orange to red. Also Magenta becomes so much more intense and vibrant. The same with some purples/blurples. Nearly every color becomes either intesified or shifts to a shade that I couldn't see without these special glasses. Whenever I wear these glasses I feel like I can see at least double the amount of colors. Flower/Botanical Gardens became my new favourite places because of all the "new colors" (resp. new shades of somewhat already existing colors). So, yes color is very subjective and highly influenced by your environment and the medium that the light travels through.

[@MrKross-tc9yy]

"Sometimes when you walk outside and see nothing but white snow under a white sky-" No, i don't know how that feels like. 🙃

[@willalogicalwf]

When we brought oranges in they in Spanish are called anoranja which is why we say an orange and an when the next word starts with a voule

[@SkyChu0]

How do we know that monochromats see in difficult to distinguish shades of gray? Being only able to perceive about 100 different colours could result in images like our old false-coloured bitmaps?

[@LucyXuCovers]

Because rod only vision is what you see at night which is in shades of grey, cone cells require higher light levels to operate. However if there is only one type of cone functioning, then it has no other cones to compare to thus it would show a monochromatic grey scale, similar to what you would see with only rod cells, but with better resolution.

[@renl9893]

This reminds me of the time i lost my flashdrive in an animation class and i asked my prof if hed found a grey flashdrive and he said no but it turns out he did find it but he thought it was pink bc he was colorblind

[@jrbird1983]

Maybe someone could answer this. Would it be possible to make blue or purple with Bismuth?

[@catharinepizzarello4784]

I want to try these glasses to see colors I have never seen before

[@isabelab6851]

You missed the mark here. Tylenol is not an NSAID. It has some purpose. Mostly for fever. Unfortunately, I am allergic to NSAIDs. Doctors still prescribe it as my only alternative. I take it when needed and very deliberately. I ensure I do not exceed recommended doses.

[@barrianic4]

when you said color blidness glasses i thought that you meant literal rose tinted glasses

[@sth.777]

One of the key reasons that people listen to white, pink or brown noises is that many in urban areas have, without knowing it, tinnitus - damage to their ear hairs which causes a constant ringing. Rather than recognize that for what it is, people subconsciously mask it by keeping their ears "busy", which actually makes the problem worse. Quiet contemplation is a lost art, but it may give your ears the rest they need!

[@felixrivera895]

Brown noise sounds like the ocean :]

[@Dashierez]

I wonder if those researching the the hypothesis discussed in the "Are Colors Real" video have thought about testing and comparing those of us who are colorblind against each other using the criteria of how say I would differentiate my responses compared to my maternal cousin who is also colorblind. IE we both should have the same faulty X chromosome. Though in my case I learned I was colorblind at age 6 and basically threw the notion that I was just going to be wrong about all colors and should not dwell on it, and he didn't learn until he turned 18 and so had a mostly 'normal' color social upbringing. Also we would provide a way of testing in other ways against those of our same native language and culture that they might not glean from those others, including themselves, that they just take for granted. I've seen it happen in a lot of ways myself where most just take colors and vision for granted. The fact that even though ~8% of XY are colorblind, and almost 95% of those are some form of red+green colorblind, we still use red and green as the primary distinguishers for electronic equipment in various ways and other important lighting. Nothing like having to constantly ask your spouse if a battery is charged or not your entire life... I've also lost track of how many spreadsheets and other documents at work over the years I've had to ask if they could recolor or make some other adjustment in the color distribution because they just automatically picked color combinations of yellow, red, and green that don't work well for us. Which I've always found that a bit insulting on an intellectual level. Sure overall XY are slightly under 50% of the population meaning 8-10% are actually more like 4 or 5% of the global population as a whole, but that still should be significant enough that we should not have to raise our hand for special treatment at this stage. Hell, with the vast gender disparity in the technology fields that we are still working to correct through STEAM initiatives, you'd think that historically having almost 10% of most of your work force being colorblind would have pushed the needle away from it ever being a problem in the first place.

[@jagmaster6595]

A lot of color blind ppl don’t realize they are color blind so that’s probably why

[@johnd.5601]

Botanist use those glasses when growing with high pressure sodium or metal halide grow lights.

[@MadDragon75]

My boomer uncle said the rebassed Clasic rock at 16hz. 24hz. 36hz. in my car caused a brown note. 🤣

[@galenrichter41]

god i hate those colorblind tests. like, i can very clearly make out that some dots are green and some are yellow, but my brain refuses to make them look like a number. i'd need to like, get a pencil and draw around the edge of the group to get the number to easily get the number.

[@karuna-b4q]

I am Russian and it has always puzzled me why international rainbow sign has only got 6 colours while rainbow in our country has 7. I would never thought it's about the language😮

[@SoloEcho]

Why they can see at night cause of black and white filters all colors and under the cuddlefish belly is white and highly sensitive to touch. And yes language doesnt really describe the same thing for example knife. What we describle as a knife is a small metal with a sharp edge on 1 side. But a knife from another language discribe the hilt and its purpose of pearcing. So a cuddlefish white belly reacts as a sensor of black and white pattern like a tv screen. On status

[@sirlaser8177]

So thats why I keep running red lights… Thank you.

[@damenwhelan3236]

So what do they see if not a light green shape in a dark green background? They don't perceive it?

[@just_kos99]

I can kind of identify with those people who try these "viral" glasses feel. I had eye surgery to try to fix my lazy eye from my two surgeries when I was a little kid, and I was just imagining what it was going to be like to see in 3D for the first time in my life. Heavy sigh, it wasn't to be, though. Makes me sad, thinking there'd be a whole new world out there I've never seen. Needless to say, I can't go to 3D movies.