Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress

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🗓️ 26 November 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On today’s episode, we’re excited to share an episode from Slate’s Decoder Ring podcast that we think you’re going to love. In the history of viral images, #TheDress has got to be in the top 10. This unassuming photo of a party dress kicked off a global debate when people realized they were seeing it completely differently. Is it black and blue, or white and gold? In today’s episode, we’ll talk to someone who was there when the photo was first taken, and the BuzzFeed writer whose post briefly broke the internet. Then we go down the optical rabbit hole with a neuroscientist who’s been studying the The Dress for years. What does it reveal about the nature of truth? This podcast was written by Willa Paskin, who produces Decoder Ring with Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Andrew Adam Newman. Derek John is Slate’s senior supervising producer of narrative podcasts. Merritt Jacob is senior technical director. We’ll hear from Paul Jinks, Cates Holderness, Pascal Wallisch, and David McRaney author of the book How Minds Change. Here’s the optical illusion of the strawberries mentioned in the episode and created by Professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka. Subscribe to Slate Plus at http://late.com/icymiplus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The new five-pound meal deal from McDonald's.
0:02.8	Get a cheeseburger or mayo chicken, medium fries, four McNuggets, and a medium soft drink for guess what?
0:08.4	That's right, five pounds.
0:11.3	It's not called the five-pound meal deal for nothing.
0:14.8	From 11 a.m., not available on delivery.
0:16.8	Carbonated soft drink upgrade fees apply.
0:18.4	Participating restaurants, subjects of availability.
0:20.1	Hey, y'all, do you remember the dress?
0:23.3	Capital T, capital D, the dress?
0:26.5	You know the one.
0:27.4	It took over our entire timelines a few years ago.
0:32.5	Debates about whether the dress was white and gold or blue and black lasted for days, decades.
0:40.0	And I don't know about you, but to me, at first, it was definitely blue and black.
0:45.4	But as time and on, I also saw white and gold, and I thought to myself, what is happening?
0:53.5	Luckily, we do now know what was happening because our friends over at Decoder Ring have a
1:00.1	whole new episode about it, and I knew that y'all would love to hear it.
1:05.1	In this episode, they went deep down the optical rabbit hole, and what they found was both surprising and kind of
1:14.8	incredible. You should like definitely be already subscribed to Decoder Ring. But if you're not,
1:21.7	we're going to give you a little taste of what you'll find in that feed. I see why I'm I'll be
1:26.7	back with a new episode next week,
1:28.6	but for now I'm going to hand the mic to my colleague Willa Paskin.
1:39.5	In February of 2015, Paul Jinks and his then-girlfriend, Cecilia Blesdale, were shopping at an outlet mall near Liverpool, England.
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