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Stuff You Should Know

How Color Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Science doesn't have a good explanation for why we sense color, yet it is everywhere and affecting us all the time. But why should minutely different wavelengths of light have such an impact on our moods and motivations?

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.1

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from HouseofWorks.com.

0:34.7

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:42.6

I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry and it's Stuff You Should Know.

0:49.8

Color and Technicolor.

0:51.4

Yeah, which is really something to see.

0:54.6

Technical?

0:55.6

Yeah, imagine what it was like back then.

0:57.9

Oh man, old debuted.

0:59.2

It just melted people's eyes out.

1:01.0

Probably dead.

1:02.0

You're like, wow.

1:03.4

How are you doing?

1:05.4

I'm great.

1:06.4

I'm glad to hear that.

1:07.4

Yeah, how are you?

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