Colors Podcast

The podcast starts out with talking about Sir Issac Newton and how at the age of 22 he asked himself "What are colors?". Being one of the most famous physicists in history, this question intrigued him so much that he stuck a knife in his eye because he wanted to know if the light was without or within. He eventually got his hands on a prism and he was able to conclude that when light hit the prism, it would divide the light into it's constituent parts and therefore providing color. All this information though is just the introductory part of the podcast. When the real podcast starts, they start to talk about the way we perceive and see colors is different from the way a dog sees color or a crow sees color. Then from there, they start to talk about the mantis shrimp, which is where they started to lose my attention. As they continue to talk about color, they start to talk about what it would be like if we were able to boost our levels of seeing color, for example if we were to take someone who is very "colorful efficient" and boost their levels of seeing color to be more "mantis shrimpy" since the mantis shrimp has a high color seeing level. Eventually they start to talk about this test that they did with this woman named Susan Hogan. They wanted to test her to see is she was a true tetra-chromate because supposedly women can be tetra-chromates.
After listening to this podcast I realized, podcasts are not for me. As interesting as this podcast was, it was very hard to follow what was going on since there were so many different people talking about since the topic of 'Colors' is a very abstract thing to talk about. If this assignment was a video rather than a podcast, then I probably would have found it to be more enjoyable. They would also add in different sound affects which in my opinion was very distracting and annoying. I found it really hard to focus on what they were trying to say and the key points of the entire podcast.

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