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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,…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

Transcript Lads, I’ve done it, I’ve cured my colorblindness, it is gone. I’m mad excited that I can see all the colours, and all I had to do was spend 3 months rinsing my eyes with this simple house-hold clean… Stop… who do you think you are, Joe Rogan? Guys, do not pour anything in…

Transcript In the past month while prepping this video, I’ve learned that people really love traffic lights… there is a huge romantic subculture dedicated to traffic lights and it’s not just people like this… It’s also people like Tony, whose idea of a man cave is colorblind nightmare fuel. Now, for all the Tony’s out…

Transcript You’ve seen the videos. Burly men put on EnChroma glasses, break down in tears, melt your heart… and for a brief moment, remind you that the world isn’t all politics, global warming and anti-vaxxers. The comments on these videos are brimming with people who are inspired by such anonymous internet emotion… inspired enough to…

Transcript What happens when color-normals try to develop systems to help color blind people? Today on chromaphobe, I’ll be ranting about the ColorADD system, a true failure of design for accessibility. WHAT IT IS The ColorADD system uses symbols to represent colors, specifically to aid the color deficient in identifying colors. It was created in…