200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Color of the Crocs
Michael knew that this was impossible. They went into the sunlight and he saw oh no wait these crocs are pink under the green lights they were gray under sunlight they were pink. He understood it he was studying color science it made sense. The brain then decodes that buzzing to construct the subjective experience of color along this electromagnetic spectrum radio waves are very very long and x-rays are really really short we can't see those because we evolved to detect the strongest wavelengths produced by the sun or what we would call visible light shorter wavelengths of visible light are experienced in the brain as the color of blue longer wavelengths as the color red and green in the middle.
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