Wed. 06/29 - Did "The Dress" Foreshadow Fake News?
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | it's wednesday june 29th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, it's another deep dive day. Last time I did one of |
| 0:44.9 | these, a lot of you said you really liked the format, so here you go. Today, we are talking about |
| 0:50.0 | the dress. Remember, the photo of that blue and black dress, or I'm sorry, white and gold |
| 0:56.6 | dress? It turns out at least one neuroscientist conducted an official study of people's |
| 1:02.0 | perceptions about it, and his findings could have larger ramifications on our seemingly |
| 1:07.4 | increasing inability to communicate and understand each other when it comes to |
| 1:12.5 | fundamental social issues. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. It's 2015. The first feature |
| 1:22.9 | length Star Wars film in a decade is about to come out. Trevor Noah has just taken over the Daily |
| 1:28.2 | show, while Larry Wilmore begins an ill-fated stint in Stephen Colbert's old time slot, while Colbert |
| 1:34.0 | moves over to the late show on CBS. Adele and Drake are making phone calls cool again with |
| 1:40.2 | hello and hotline bling. Barack Obama is still in office and the U.S. women's soccer team |
| 1:45.8 | wins the World Cup for the third time. And in early February, most of the world becomes |
| 1:51.9 | obsessed with a grainy photo of a blue dress. Or was it white and gold? It's been seven years |
| 2:00.3 | since the internet was thrust into chaos debating |
| 2:03.0 | the real color of the dress depicted in the photo, and one neuroscientist, Pascal Wallish, |
| 2:09.0 | has some takeaways. Walsh, whose research is concentrated on consciousness and perception, |
| 2:14.7 | got funding from NYU while the dress was still going viral in order to |
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