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Unexplainable

While Vox is known for explaining complicated ideas in easily understandable ways, its new podcast Unexplainable flips that premise on its head. Instead of demystifying the daily information onslaught, Unexplainable sits with the most mystifying unknowns of all time. From questioning whether everything we thought we knew about psychology is wrong to the quest to understand what the hell dark matter is, Unexplainable teaches us to get comfortable with the idea that human knowledge has many limits. And that’s kinda awesome.

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What color is a tennis ball?

Is it yellow? Is it green? Or what if, as one scientist argues, “there’s no such thing as a color?”

Guest: Bevil Conway, visual artist and neuroscientist at the National Eye Institute



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