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Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us ModernBy 99% Invisible, Roman Mars, Adam Rogers

In a Nutshell

In 2015, a bizarre photo of a dress took the internet by storm. In this August 2021 episode of the 99% Invisible podcast, Roman Mars and Adam Rogers attempt to find out why.

Favorite Quote

You could tell that the biggest story in the country for the next eight hours was a science story. And it was a science of vision and neuropsychiatry and neurobiology and color.

Adam Rogers

Introduction

When a seemingly innocent picture of a dress was uploaded to Facebook in 2015, everybody lost their minds. The reason? Nobody knew what color it was.

Roman Mars is a radio producer and the host of 99% Invisible, a radio show and podcast which explores the unseen details behind the world's design, art, and architecture.

In this episode, Mars talks with Adam Rogers, author of Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern.

Mars and Rogers discuss the confusion behind 'The dress', and why the way we see color is fundamental to our understanding of the world at large.

The podcast aims to answer the all-important question — what color is The dress?

Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack

  1. 1.
    'The dress' is blue and black
  2. 2.
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc volutpat, leo ut.
  3. 3.
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc volutpat, leo ut.
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