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Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception

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Colored Light Is Like All the Other Sensations

Colored light is in one sense just the teensiest part of the physics that surround them. What colors we see depend on our biology. Birds are tetra chromats and bees, they're trichromatic like us but don't even bother with red. The natural world positively glows to these other animals.

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