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What color is a tennis ball?

October 5, 2026 · 27 min

Is it yellow? Is it green? Or what if, as one scientist argues, “there’s no such thing as a color?”


Guest: Bevil Conway, visual artist and neuroscientist at the National Eye Institute


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