Hi friends, it's me Mark. I'm just dropping in to tell you about a virtual party brains on is having Saturday, July 29th

It's free and you're invited

Not only are we celebrating our 10th birthday, we're also super excited to share our newest book with you

It's called meet my micro pets. The book is a fact-filled

hilarious journey through the weird and wonderful world of microbes. I know I know you're thinking

But Mark, will there be cool games at this virtual party on July 29th?

I mean, yeah, only the coolest and before you ask

There will absolutely be epic stories and yes

Molly Sandin and I will be there answering as many questions as we can during the whole event

This is a one-time only live virtual party. You do not want to miss again. It's on Saturday, July 29th

11 a.m. Pacific one p.m. Central and two p.m. Eastern had to brains on dot org slash events for a link to sign up

That's brains on dot org slash events. See you on July 29th

You're listening to brains on from American public media. We're serious about being curious. I'm Molly Bloom

Okay, it's a little dark in here. I'm having trouble reading what I've written here. Hold on

Whoa, have you noticed it always takes a little while for your eyes to adjust from dark to light and vice versa?

Well, we get a lot of questions about eyes and vision like this one about color from Becca

How do we know if we all see the same colors and is there a way you could test people's

perceptions of colors think about it for a second you say hey Molly passed me the blue crayon and I passed you the blue crayon

But what if the color that you call blue and the color that I call blue

Don't actually look the same at all like what if the color that I call blue the color of the sky or a blue J or

Grover from Sesame Street

What if my eyes see that as the same color you call orange?

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