Ep115 "What is color? Part 1: Why hunters wear orange"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Why do birds and bees choose different flowers? Why do mammals' eyes seem to be optimized for moving around at night, and what does that have to do with hairless humans getting angry? What does any of this have to do with road signs, camouflage, mantis shrimp, the sun, the dress that broke the internet, and women who can see more colors than you can?
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is about color. |
| 0:07.9 | What is the very specific reason that hunters wear orange? |
| 0:13.0 | Why do birds and bees go to different flowers? |
| 0:16.1 | Why do most mammals look like they've evolved, at least in part, for moving around at night. |
| 0:21.7 | And what does that have to do with hairless humans getting angry? And what does any of this |
| 0:27.6 | have to do with road signs or camouflage or mantis shrimp or the sun or the dress that broke the |
| 0:35.5 | internet or women who can see more colors than you can. |
| 0:43.2 | Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman. I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford, |
| 0:48.3 | and in these episodes, we look at the world inside us and around us to understand why and how our lives look the way they do. |
| 1:13.6 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Hey, this is Robert Lamb. |
| 1:15.1 | And this is Joe McCormick, and we're the hosts of the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast. |
| 1:19.5 | We've got an exciting week ahead for you on Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 1:22.4 | It's Cat Week. |
| 1:23.5 | That's right, to coincide with International Cat Day on August 8th, |
| 1:27.1 | we're dedicating every episode in the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast feed to your cute, mysterious feline companions. |
| 1:34.2 | So tune in for core stuff to blow your mind episodes on the earliest archaeological evidence for domesticated cats and the folkloric cats of the British Isles. |
| 1:43.0 | The week's monster fact will focus on a popular cat creature, |
| 1:46.0 | and you better believe Weird House Cinema will cover some kind of head-scratching cat movie. |
| 1:50.7 | So tune in, August 5th through 8th, for Stuff to Blow Your Minds Cat Week. |
| 1:54.7 | Find us on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 2:04.5 | So. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. So what happened at Chappaquittic? |
| 2:06.6 | Well, it really depends on who you talk to. |
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