Author: chromaphobe
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Nocturnal Bottleneck
Shownotes 1. Rhodopsin The 4 opsins that vertebrates had at the time of the cambrian explosion was just one step short of what we consider the full modern complement of opsins, which includes the 4 classes of cone opsins, plus RH1, used in Rhodopsin. Towards the end of the Cambrian, about 500 million years ago,…
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Dutch Bike Lanes
I made my second youtube short earlier this month about a disappointing run-in with bike lanes in Holland. https://youtube.com/shorts/zfNlIbD24d0 Second part of the series on the evolution of color vision will come out later this weekend.
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COVID + Anosmia
Transcript A few weeks ago, I contracted COVID. It was no weekend at Disneyland, but perhaps thanks to 3 jabs in the arm, I mostly escaped with just a bit of congestion and fatigue… but… the novel symptom for me… was the loss of smell, and I immediately realized… it felt almost perfectly equivalent to…
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Escape Rooms
Just had a call with the owner of an escape room. I chatted with the game master after a game, which saw my wife and I go head-to-head in an arcade style battle. The theme was highly colorful and being alone in the room without my wife to rely on posed several issues. SNAKE First,…
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Evolution of Color Vision I – Dawn of Color
“In the land of the colorblind,dichromatic color vision is king.“ – some Hebrew proverb (kinda) Show Notes Evolution of Opsins We made the assumption that the number of unique opsins determines color vision, but is this true? If all we need are photoreceptors to be sensitive to different wavelengths of light, there are ways of…
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Photobiomodulation
Show Notes PHOTOBLEACHING You may be familiar with photobleaching. This is the process by which photoreceptors are saturated with light, and therefore stop working temporarily. This was once a fad on youtube to use your phone flash, shining through your eyelid – thereby being filtered red by your blood – to saturate your red cones…
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15 FPS
After receiving a pair of complaints, I realized that all of my videos have footage of myself downsampled to 15FPS, making them incredibly choppy. As one fellow youtuber said: “oh yeah dude it’s fucking awful lmao. I’ll be straight up with you 🤣 Delete and reupload bro“ After a lot of troubleshooting, I still don’t…
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Thanks for the promotion?
My last video on Cooking Meat started exploding after a week. I got excited until I saw the source was all from paid promotion. Someone apparently paid to get this video advertised on youtube. My wife claims it wasn’t her… the plot thickens. Funnily enough, the viewer retention (how long they watched on average) of…
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Cooking Meat without Color
Show Notes Plant Based Meat Like any kind of food – including vegetables – plant-based meats can be infected by bacteria like e. coli. However, they are also significantly less likely to harbor bacteria than real meat. So while they will not taste GOOD undercooked, there is very little foodborne illness risk to undercooking plant…
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EnChroma Unboxing Parody
I had to do it… I saw this sketch on SNL and it reminded so well of the ‘Seeing Color for the First Time’ videos where people try EnChroma glasses and lose their minds. Of course, its only the most interesting videos that get shared on facebook or r/mademesmile, and when someone doesn’t have such…