Here it is color-balanced … looks pretty red to me!
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I poked a hole in a post-it and looked through that and sure enough, it was all dirty greys and blues no matter where you looked. But in the gestalt, those berries are red.
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What, did you travel from a solar system with a yellow sun, hmmmmm?
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These purportedly taste like pineapple.
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Ah, the scientific method. Refreshing!
When I saw the checkerboard illusion on-line I printed it out and chopped it up with scissors.
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Illusions like this are a good reminder that the human brain is like an enormous fish.
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If you look at the separate channels you’ll see there’s plenty of red in the red channel. When you overlay a color over another color the eye dropper tends to pickup the overlay color or a combination of all the colors. 
That one is my favorite example.
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It’s all an illusion!
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I have a pair of sunnies I don’t wear much, cause they have an orangey-brown tint. I put them on the other day and was like, damn, this sucks. But a few minutes later it was fine.
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If these weren’t strawberries (but rather abstract shapes) would this still work? What if they were something that isn’t normally red (e.g. limes) made to look red, then blue filter applied?
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I have read that you can put on glasses that turn everything upside-down, and after about a week or ten days, things will look normal.
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This is bogus. There is plenty of red in there. That is–a lot of red spectrum wavelengths. Remove the red channel --which turns off the red pixels on your screen–and it no longer looks red. Or remove the other channels–which darken the non-red pixels–and the whole thing is red. Consequently, the red-sensitive cones are firing when you look at it. This isn’t even a good illusion–like the shading illusion above, or a curious/strange one–like the blue/gold dress. This is why science isn’t just twitter attention, but involves empirical evidence and peer review.
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We have some of those in our garden. We’re hoping to get some fruit this year.
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Blueberries aren’t blue!
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I remember that; I thought it was three days.
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pinapple-ISH. very sweet and pleasant.
i found that i had to cut my patch back every annually with a mower on the highest setting in order to get it to consistently fruit. same as i did with the french alpine. they’d fruit if i didn’t, but only sparsely.
they aren’t “keeping” strawberries, but they are fantastic fresh picked on pancakes.
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