What If Only Females Could See Color?
by Pierre Bienaimé
Jul 27, 2018
4 minutes
ave you ever wondered how your life might be different if you could see beyond the visible light spectrum—into ultraviolet or infrared? For one thing, you might be immune, or less susceptible, to implicit racial bias. Inna Vishik, an applied physicist at U.C. Davis, if you weren’t limited to the typical range of colors most humans see, “everyone would be the same color (except for people with a fever)”—yellowish. You’d also be able to know which places and cell phone reception, she says, and whether you “*really* should wear sunscreen today.” No doubt if you had this special ability,
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