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What Color Is a Tennis Ball?

Quick: What color is a tennis ball? Turns out people don’t agree on this – and fall into pretty much the same camps as the did with the dress (blue/black vs. white/gold – you remember). A piece on how we see the world – and how we see it differently.

From Weekly Filet #265, in February 2018.

Fireflies

A fascinating interactive explainer on how fireflies synchonise their flashing to create one big lightshow. (Once you know it, it seems fairly obvious, but it had remained a mystery for nearly a century).

From Weekly Filet #234, in June 2017.
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