Purple is just a lie your brain tells you about the universe. Let's talk about that and why Red Onions are actually "purple." A special thanks to Steve Mould (@MouldS) for his excellent video about color mixing  and John Seymour (@John_TheMathGuy) for this brilliant blog post about the linguistic evolution of colors!


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