Is the dress blue & black or white and gold?
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The controversy over the blue and black dress took over the early 2000s. Ask yourself, what colors do you see? I see white and gold. The colors of the dress are actually black and blue per the article, "The Science of Why No One Agrees on The Color of This Dress?". Why is there such a split in debate on the color of this dress? Light enters the eye through a lens. Everyone is wired differently including how we see colors. The color of an object depends on the background illuminating the object at the time. To understand this, you need to understand neuroplasticity. In short, neuroplasticity is the evolution of the brain or how the brain organizes structures. The color of the dress is based on the fact that humans evolved to be able to see in daylight, but daylight changes colors. For example, when the sunsets. Everyone may see a more blueish hue or a red and pink hue at sunset. If you lean towards the blue hue, you probably see a white and gold dress. If you lean towards the gold hue, you will probably see a blue and black dress which is the actual color of the dress.
Are There More than Five Basic Tastes?
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In the Ted Talk, "Are there more than five basic tastes?", Nicole Garneau is a geneticist that believes we have a gene that allows us to taste fat, we just do not know that we do. Just like sight, taste evolves over time. Again, how you are wired can depict what you taste. Garneau makes an example at the beginning of the talk with two pictures of a pizza. One pizza is molded and one is fresh. Everyone immediately picked the fresh pizza, because we associate mold as bad and bad does not taste good. We associate sweet and savory as good but sour as bad. You enjoy low acid like citrus but hate battery acid. Your brain associates that as bad. As a child you may not like broccoli because it is a vegetable and your brain may associate that as bad, but as you get older and evolve you might like the taste of broccoli because your brain associates it as good. Again, neuroplasticity plays a role in this. Fat is essential for your body and can be viewed as good to your brain, so therefore we should have a gene for the taste and not realize it.
References
Rogers, A. (2015, February 27). The science of why no one agrees on the color of this dress. Wired. Retrieved May 2, 2023, from https://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/
Garneau, N. (2017, January 20). Are there more than five basic tastes? Retrieved May 2, 2023, from https://blackboard.uthsc.edu/ultra/courses/_27565_1/cl/outline
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