What Color Is A Banana?

How do we see color in the first place?

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What Color Is A Banana? Be Smart

Premiered November 09, 2019

What Color Is A Banana?

What color is a banana? Duh, it’s yellow. But what is yellow? Now that you mention it, how do we see color in the first place? That’s the series of questions that led me to making this video. It started simple and took me down a rabbit hole of decoding our visual system.

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