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Science and Nature

What Color Is A Banana?

Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.

What Color Is A Banana?

Season 7 Episode 23 | 8m 46s | CC

What color is a banana? Duh, it’s yellow. But what is yellow? Now that you mention it, how do we see color in the first place? That’s the series of questions that led me to making this video. It started simple and took me down a rabbit hole of decoding our visual system.

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