Saturday, February 9, 2013

The Color Atlas


















Empirical Zeal - "The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains" 

"...if you think about it, there’s a real puzzle here. Why should different cultures draw the same boundaries? If we speak different languages with largely independent histories, shouldn’t our ancestors have carved up the visual atlas rather differently?"

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