Skeptophilia

When you think about it, color vision is kind of strange.  Our eyes -- unless you have a genetic or physical inability to do so -- are able ...

There's a famous anecdote about British biologist J. B. S. Haldane .  Haldane was a brilliant geneticist and evolutionary biology but wa...

Our ability to perceive color is, when you think about it, a peculiar thing. First, there's the rather hackneyed question of whether we ...

 I'm not absolutely certain about this, but I strongly suspect that every time I taught my biology students about the physiology of colo...

The "what colors do you see in this photograph?" thing is back with us, only instead of a dress, this time it's a shoe. P...

This post is brought to you by the color blue. But not to worry: this is not  about the damned dress, about which I have heard enough in ...