Podcasts · Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
Ep116 " What is Color? Part 2: Why royals wear purple"
· 38 min · Episode 116
Episode Ep116 " What is Color? Part 2: Why royals wear purple"
Are there new colors you could see? And why are they impossible to imagine before you've seen them? Can you lose your color vision? And what does any of this have to do with linguistic color terms, why the military likes colorblind people for a particular task, and why Eagleman suggests that the cultural history of Thailand was influenced by one single, unknown neurodivergent?
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