Lady Gaga Won’t Stop Calling: The Vision Revolution and Makeup

Christine Ottery (that’s not her above) recently interviewed me about bare naked skin and the origins of color vision, and she wrote up her piece in Scientific American. Read it here. Also, note the “Lady Gaga” connection in the piece. This is not the first time “Lady Gaga” has been all over my research — the [...]

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Read the second most popular story at EarthSky in 2010.

EarthSky interviewed me in late 2010 about my book, The Vision Revolution, and the segment about the evolution of bare skin and color vision was the second most popular interview in that year. Hear the interview yourself here. ~~~ Mark Changizi is Director of Human Cognition at 2AI, and the author of The Vision Revolution (Benbella Books) [...]

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The Colorful Smell of Richard Dawkins: Is Your and My Red the Same?

How do we know that your ‘red’ looks the same as my ‘red’? For all we know, your ‘red’ looks like my ‘blue’. In fact, for all we know your ‘red’ looks nothing like any of my colors at all! If colors are just internal labels, then as long as everything gets labeled, why should [...]

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EarthSky Interview

Jorge Salazar of EarthSky.org recently interviewed me about my research, and you can find the podcast and text here. I got a chance to talk about the similarity between accents and color vision (how we all believe we have uncolorey skin and no accent), the function of color vision (it’s for giving you that empath [...]

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Don’t Judge a Car by Its Color — A Story in Road & Track

Nick Kurczewski recently interviewed me about the evolution of color vision. As you know, I believe it’s all about emotion, and skin. And in our modern culture, we’re often displaying colors not on our naked skin as we’re “supposed” to, but on the artifacts we cover ourselves with, like our clothing. …and our cars. Nick [...]

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Color research in Professional Lighting Design Magazine

I was recently interviewed by Deborah Burnett for the (gorgeous) Professional Lighting Design Magazine. The topic was how to better design lighting to tap into what our eyes are meant to see, and more specifically about understanding this in light of my research that color vision may have evolved for seeing skin coloration signals. Here’s [...]

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Interviewed at N e u r o n a r r a t i v e

David DiSalvo is a science writer for places like Scientific American, with his own Brainspin column at the True/Slant Network, and another column he calls Neuronarrative. He recently interviewed me about my book, The Vision Revolution… Neuronarrative interview with me =========================== Mark Changizi is a professor of cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the [...]

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Harnessing color vision for oximetry

The press release just came out for my simple proposal for harnessing our color vision for better sensing clinical skin color changes of patients, along with some news stories, which can be linked here… LA Times, Toronto Sun, Forbes, Times Union (and video), Troy Record, BoingBoing, AOL News, Times Colony, Diagnostic Imaging, Ratschlag24, Press Release, [...]

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Is the Valentine Heart Really a Red, Engorged, Upturned Rump?

It’s Valentine Day, and children everywhere celebrated friendship and love by giving cards and candy to their friends. In what alien observers must consider one of the most bizarre human customs, these same children were asked to draw lewd pictures of human private parts. You don’t think you or your children participated in this custom? [...]

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Avatar and “But I thought you were blue!”

“But I thought you were blue!” That’s what Jake Sully, the main character in Avatar, says when he wakes up as an alien at the very end of the movie. Actually, the movie ends just before he has a chance to say anything, but that’s my guess about what he would have said. The question [...]

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