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Mar. 2nd, 2018 10:32 am
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First finding out about the colour blindness of Pingelap (interview with Oliver Sacks, Web of Stories - multiple clips discuss colour-blindness)

The case of the colour-blind painter (interview with Oliver Sacks, Web of Stories)

Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature? (See also this Tweet, showing a butterfly's wings losing colour when wet)

The ABC broadcast an audio description of the New Year's fireworks for the blind.

When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? (Ask Smithsonian, 7 April 2011) | Gritty in pink: reclaiming fashion's most controversial colour (Guardian, 15 March 2017)

No, you can’t fly over a rainbow – that would break the laws of physics (Guardian, 29 October 2014)

Crayola's newest crayon color is a shade of blue that was just discovered (USA Today, 5 May 2017)

Enchroma glasses for red-green colour-blindness

Special glasses give people superhuman colour vision (New Scientist, 21 March 2017)

Why the mantis shrimp is my new favourite animal (The Oatmeal)

Color Models (XKCD)

Computer paints rainbow smoke with 17 million colours (New Scientist, 5 March 2014)

Prussian blue: From the Great Wave to Starry Night, how a pigment changed the world (ABC, 21 July 2017)

Mesopotamians used Egyptian blue, but there's no Akkadian word for "blue".



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