The Strange Science of Color — And Our Quest to Understand It
This episode explores the science of color, including how humans perceive, describe, and standardize different shades.
On this encore episode, we explore the world of color — from how we perceive it, to our efforts to describe and differentiate its many shades. We talk with a lexicographer about efforts to standardize synthetic colors, and how we describe them, and investigate how we know that the colors we see are the same as the ones everyone else sees.
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