Category: Videos
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Deconstructing Fruitone
Transcript + Footnotes Judging by the number of emails I get from people with the next big color idea, everyone thinks they can help the color blind. But when you mix that helpful attitude with a complete disregard for how color blindness works or affects us, you get laughably useless tools like Fruitone. Fruitone was…
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Dyschromatopsia (Science Standup)
TRANSCRIPT All right. How you guys all doing, I don’t know any of you. All right, so I have not been here before so I don’t really know what the vibe is. So I’m going to try and make up my own vibe. I am going to talk about dyschromatopsia, which if you know what…
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Felice Ciccone: A story of injustice
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The colorblind are disabled
TRANSCRIPT The colorblind are disabled. This is not ragebait, this is what I believe, and I imagine if this video takes off, it’s going to be because the vast majority of you vehemently disagree with that statement… and with the help of my sister and a friend, I’m going to try and change your mind.…
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Limits of the Visible Spectrum
Transcript + Footnotes The cosmos is a bright disco of light of every scale… a huge spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, and our pathetic little human eyeballs… can see less than 1% of it. Today on chromaphobe… Why can’t we see in the infrared or the ultraviolet? How come we can only see in the visible…
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Can LSD help color blindness?
References Transcript + Footnotes Psychedelics can make you “see” pretty colors, but what are they ACTUALLY doing for your color vision? Today on Chromaphobe… can hallucinogens, psychedelics, LSD, shrooms… improve your color vision or help your colorblindness? ANECDOTES There are plenty of observations that seem to suggest this, and it’s not just your stoner roommate,…
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7 Ways to Cheat the Ishihara
References The essay by Elsie Murray is a very interesting, short read. Transcript It can suck to be colorblind, and especially to have a clump of ugly little dots laugh at you as you realize that you will never be able to… uh, drive a train. This little Ishihara plate is often what keeps us…
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Why do Protan & Deutan look so similar?
Transcript Say hello to this pretty lady. You know what makes her prettier? Being color blind. Let’s use her to simulate some colorblindness real quick. As you probably know, since, well, you clicked on the thumbnail, there are three main types of partial colorblindness: protan, deutan and tritan. These are the forms that affect the…
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A Cure for the Colorblind: Roadmap to Gene Therapy
FOOTNOTES #1 Heredity Because the gene therapy only targets the photoreceptors, and only affects cells in the retina (and possibly other areas of the eye), the genomes of the gametes (eggs and sperm) are unaffected. This means that the new copy of the gene is not inherited by the children of the individual who received…
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Can cops be colorblind?
TRANSCRIPT One thing we can probably agree on, is that police should be more colorblind… but while you may be thinking colorblind in the figurative sense – less racist cops – I mean colorblind… in the literal sense… because in the majority of police forces around the world, the colorblind are restricted from becoming police…