Makary was accurate when he said that “most countries have stopped recommending” routine COVID-19 vaccination for children.
“In the end I may see a colour and call it ‘red’, someone else may call it ‘rot’ or ‘rouge’ … but also another may look at it a bit more closely and say ‘well it’s claret’ or ‘crimson’.”To test this, neuroscience and AI researcher Patrick Mineault developed a
for entertainment purposes in September 2024, on which users can take a test to see how their colour perception compares to others.Humans can also perceive colour differently due to differences in factors such as “temperature” of light. This was demonstrated when a photo of a dress went viral in 2015, dividing social media users over whether the dress was white and gold, or blue and black.Windram explained that people who were deciding what colours the dress was were drawing on preconceived notions of whether the photograph of the dress was taken in warm lighting or cool lighting.
Do animals see colour differently from humans?Yes, different species can experience colours differently.
For example, humans process three wavelengths corresponding to red, blue and green light, while the mantis shrimp, a tiny crustacean, can visually perceive 12 channels of colour instead of three. An article by the Australian Academy of Science explains that the mantis shrimp can also detect ultraviolet and polarised light, which humans cannot see.
However, while the human eye can mix two colours and perceive an in-between shade – such as purple as a mix of red and blue – the mantis shrimp’s eyes cannot mix colour receptors.Led by Pastor Paul McKenzie, the congregants there also left their families and abandoned property, seeking to go to heaven and meet their messiah. But news reports said that at the church, they were radicalised and brainwashed, convinced that if they stopped eating they would die peacefully, go to heaven and meet their god.
Both Grace Kazungu’s parents and two of her siblings perished in the Shakhola church cult, says the 32-year-old mother of three from Kilifi.Whenever she and her brother tried to question the church’s teachings, the others would not hear a word against it, she told Al Jazeera.
“They would argue that we were ‘anti-Christ’ and that their church was the only sacred and holy way to heaven,” she said.“Months later, I heard from my brother that they had sold the family’s property and were going to live inside the church after ditching earthly possessions.