Michael Johnson
Appearances
Betrayal: Season 4
Introducing the Burden of Guilt Docuseries
I was told that Matthew died in an accident.
Betrayal: Season 4
Introducing the Burden of Guilt Docuseries
I can't imagine sitting with the kind of mystery of what happened with your baby brother.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
132 - Green Children of Woolpit, Solway Spaceman, Hawaiian Cryptids
I'm a man. I'm a man. I'm a man.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
132 - Green Children of Woolpit, Solway Spaceman, Hawaiian Cryptids
I use a Bud Day, but I'll never say. Gotta blast some fresh water at the end of the day. I'm rough, I'm tough, I swing an axe. But I keep my backside clean and relaxed. I use a Bud Day. I use a Bud Day.
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
The three types of color cells in the retina, the reason they're sensitive to these three types of different parts of the visible spectrum is because they are filled with photopigments, which are proteins. And those proteins come from our DNA, from three genes. So literally, our color vision is baked into our DNA, literally.
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
Absolutely. And that people see colors in the world and experience them differently, for sure. And if you're a colorblind person, that is what we call dichromatic or hard dichromatic, is missing one of those three genes completely. And when that happens, then what is that vision like? Actually, it's really hard to know what the experience of having
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
another person's vision is it's sort of impossible right and there's three types of this type of colorblindness but the most common type would be an experience we think that sees the world only in shades of blue and yellow okay so you don't see all the colors of the rainbow you can't order the colors of the rainbow because you don't perceive them okay you perceive them as shades of blue and yellow
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
So absolutely, we're all seeing the world in different, you know, differently.
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
If you did that, I guess the question becomes, do you see a square of color? Or is your brain just confused about what you see there? Do you see a black hole? Or, you know, what is it? And I thought, well, you know, I guess you would see a color. And I wanted to know, hey, does that look like, what does it look like? Does it look like the greenest green you've ever seen?
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
And I want to call out James Fong and Hannah Doyle amongst the many collaborators. But really, they stand out as the people that did the hard work had the perseverance and the smarts, the talent to really chase this down. It was so challenging. But the fruits of the labor is so valuable because it is really something that's never been done before. So there's no charted course to it.
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
I love that question. To be clear, animals don't see the world in color anything like a human does, right? Nothing like a human does. Animal eyes are vastly different than ours. And even our closest cousins on the evolutionary tree, their genes for those photopigments that we talked about earlier, they're not the same as for us.
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
They don't have the same number as us, and they don't have the same genetic sequence. So its functional effect in the world for detecting light is totally different. We know that. Like hummingbirds, people have probably heard or may have heard, some species can see in UV light. We're blind to UV light as one example, but every animal sees it completely differently.
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
Another way you think about it is that, you know, we all look at a TV. We're like, wow, that color is pretty good. When your dog or your cat is sitting there looking at that TV, they do not see that and be like, wow, that kind of looks like, you know, that photo that we all took together outside the house this morning. It just, the colors don't look right. Okay.
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
He might be following, but the colors won't look the same.
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
So back to this question about, you know, could there be, you know, an animal that could see Olo? I received that question first. Oh, what a great question. But it's actually that there's no way for that to happen because the experiential nature of the color for different species is just so vastly different.
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
It's blue-green, it's a teal color, but it's just more saturated than any teal you can see in the natural world.
Short Wave
Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!
Well, it's been a real pleasure to talk to you. Thanks for having us on, Emily.
Something Scary
Stone Cold-Hearted
Na klar, können wir. Was du aus deiner Zukunft auch machst. Wir können alles, was kommt. Das Handwerk.
Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
The Climb That Changed Everything | Motivational Speech About Choosing Hard Things
Kennt ihr auch diesen einen Freund, der morgens einfach so ruckzuck aus dem Bett und danach aus dem Grinsen gar nicht mehr rauskommt? Der sogar noch vor dem ersten Kaffee unverschämt gut gelaunt ist und mit der Morgensonne um die Wette strahlt? Furchtbar. Ekelhaft.