Sunday, August 14, 2011

Random Thought of the Day

Remember a while back, I posted about the Power of Words.

This post was a little long (I mean, very long) and you probably didn't read it, but here's a great video illustrating everything I hoped you would learn from my "Power of Words" post.

The words we use to describe color actually change the way we see color!



And as a little bonus, here's the RadioLab episode on this very topic:

Abstract things like time, thought, and understanding don't exist unless we have words for thinking about them...

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