Category: Videos
-
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.…
-
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…
-
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,…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
The Science Behind the Ishihara Test
Footnotes FOOTNOTE 1: CONE MOSAIC (5:07) The small changes in luminosity curve are often due to differences in the cone mosaic. The retina is made up of the four photoreceptors (3 cones and 1 rod), but these proportions change from person to person. Some people have more red cones and some more green cones, and…
-
How a made-up color blindness infiltrated the internet
Footnotes FOOTNOTE 1: ANOMYLIZE While this is not a real word, it is supposed to be derived from “-anomaly”. The proper spelling should therefore be ANOMALIZE, not ANOMYLIZE. Yes, it’s a petty thing to complain about, but it’s also indicative of the lazy naming that was happening in these simulations. It’s like they are trying…
-
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,…