Do You See What I See?

Short Wave

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Everyone sees the world differently. Exactly which colors you see and which of your eyes is doing more work than the other as you read this text is different for everyone. Also different? Our blind spots – both physical and social. As we continue celebrating Black History Month, today we're featuring Exploratorium Staff Physicist Educator Desiré Whitmore. She shines a light on human eyesight – how it affects perception and how understanding another person's view of the world can offer us a fuller, better picture of life.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.6	Subnodes, Emily Kwong here with news from the Shortwave Cosmos.
0:09.8	Our universe is expanding and we are welcoming to the fam our very first scientist in residence.
0:18.7	That's right, she is astrophysicist and all around incredible human.
0:23.5	Regina Barber.
0:24.8	Hey, Em.
0:25.8	Regina, we are so excited you're here, the whole team at Shortwave, all of our listeners.
0:30.4	We welcome you.
0:31.6	Tell us about yourself.
0:33.2	I'm super excited to be here too.
0:34.8	I'm a trained astrophysicist.
0:36.8	I've been in academia my whole adult life until now.
0:41.0	I taught for over a decade physics and astronomy.
0:44.1	And as a female scientist who is Asian and Mexican American, I noticed I see the world a little
0:49.2	differently from a lot of my colleagues and peers whose identities are more common in
0:53.5	the sciences.
0:54.5	One thing I love about you is you were doing Shortwave way before Shortwave ever existed
0:58.8	in that you created your very own science podcast years ago called Spark Science.
1:05.2	Yep.
1:06.2	Which was about this very thing.
1:07.7	How your identity can inform the way you do science.
1:11.9	Yeah, it's literally true.
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