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Panasonic Z95A OLED TV Review: Searing Brightness and Colors

Panasonic Z95A OLED TV Review: Searing Brightness and Colors

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Photograph: Ryan Waniata Thanks to excellent picture processing, details pop, from crystalline 4K Blu-rays to 1080p and even 720p upscaling. Only the fuzziest SD images fail to impress, sometimes coming through a little blocky, but that’s true of pretty much any 4K TV. The only minor chinks in the armor I noticed over several days were some small stutters or jerkiness with challenging motions scenes and some color banding with compressed video. Otherwise, I was able to just sit back and enjoy the glow. The highlight for me is the Z95A’s phenomenal colors, which are so rich and stirring that they caught me off guard, even when compared to all the other great flavors in Panasonic’s special sauce. I was gobsmacked from day one, starting with a casual viewing of the holiday classic Scrooged. From Bill Murray’s deep navy suits to the crimson-gold of Robert Mitchum’s pajamas, I found myself mesmerized—and it wasn’t just me. Fantasia is one of my wife’s most-viewed movies, yet we were both dazzled by the artistry. Sapphire blues, flashing silvers, …

The Mushroom Color Atlas: An Interactive Web Site Lets You Explore the Incredible Spectrum of Colors Created from Fungi

The Mushroom Color Atlas: An Interactive Web Site Lets You Explore the Incredible Spectrum of Colors Created from Fungi

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Enter the Mush­room Col­or Atlas, and you can dis­cov­er the “beau­ti­ful and sub­tle col­ors derived from dye­ing with mush­rooms.” Fea­tur­ing 825 col­ors, each asso­ci­at­ed with dif­fer­ent types of mush­rooms, the inter­ac­tive atlas lets you appre­ci­ate the broad spec­trum of col­ors latent in the fun­gi king­dom. The shades, tints, and hues will sur­prise you. Julie Beel­er, a design­er liv­ing in Ore­gon, first launched the inter­ac­tive Mush­room Col­or Atlas back in 2021. Now, she has released a com­pan­ion book, The Mush­room Col­or Atlas: A Guide to Dyes and Pig­ments Made from Fun­gi. Illus­trat­ed by Yuli Gates, the book is “equal parts art book, field guide, and col­or dis­til­la­tion work­shop.” You can order your copy today. The same goes for a Mush­room Col­or Atlas poster. If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. Or fol­low our posts on Threads, Face­book, BlueSky or Mastodon. If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions …

Conspicuous logos and clothing colors influence perceptions of men’s mating priorities and attractiveness

Conspicuous logos and clothing colors influence perceptions of men’s mating priorities and attractiveness

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New research published in Evolutionary Psychological Science found that exaggerated features in luxury goods can influence perceptions of men’s behavioral strategies. Conspicuous consumption, where individuals display wealth through luxury products, could be a tool for social differentiation. Evolutionary psychologists tend to focus on its function in mate attraction, suggesting that men’s luxury displays signal potential paternal investment. In this work, Daniel J. Kruger investigated an alternative theory, proposing that some of men’s conspicuous consumption signals mating effort over paternal investment. The researcher tested the phenotypic mimicry model, suggesting that the features of luxury goods, like large logos, can mirror secondary sexual characteristics. Across species, exaggerated features in males are linked to mating competition and reduced paternal investment. Thus, Kruger hypothesized that men with showier luxury goods would be perceived as prioritizing mating effort over parenting effort. In Study 1, 357 ethnically diverse undergraduate students (62% women) participated in an online survey where they rated hypothetical male shirt owners based on images of Ralph Lauren polo shirts. The shirts featured four different logo conditions: no logo, …

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

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A Tapestry of Time and Emotion You know how sometimes a book just grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go? Yeah, that’s “All the Colors of the Dark” for you. Chris Whitaker’s latest novel is like… it’s like one of those dreams where you’re falling, but instead of waking up in a cold sweat, you find yourself tumbling through decades of love, loss, and the kind of hope that burns so bright it hurts to look at it. Set against the backdrop of small-town America in the 1970s, this book is a rollercoaster ride that’ll leave you breathless and maybe a little bit broken. But in a good way, you know? Like how you feel after a really good cry—all raw and open, but somehow lighter. The Story: More Than Just Another Missing Persons Tale So, here’s the deal. It’s 1975 in Monta Clare, Missouri. Girls are disappearing, and the town’s holding its breath, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Enter Patch, our unlikely hero with one eye and a heart big …

Plus, explore colors. | Mashable

Plus, explore colors. | Mashable

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SAVE 44%: As of today July 19, three-pack Philips Hue A1 Bluetooth Lightbulbs are on sale at Amazon for $59 off. This takes the price down from $134.99 to $75.99. There’s magic in having just the right lighting: it can soothe, inspire, and rejuvenate. With Bluetooth-enabled smart lightbulbs, you can curate the lights to fit whatever headspace you’re in. Today at Amazon, you can score a set of three Philips Hue A1 Bluetooth Lightbulbs for 44% off, saving you $59. Normally, they list for $134.99, but today you can get them for $75.99. Amazon’s price is also $4 cheaper than buying them directly from Philips. These lightbulbs can sync up with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit, enabling voice-assistant control. There’s also the Hue App, an easy-to-use hub for controlling your lights. We love this convenience, but even more appealing is how these lights let you play with color: not just different variations of white, but across the whole spectrum of the rainbow. There are millions of color settings to choose from! Mashable Deals Revamp …

iPhone 16 Models Rumored to Come in These Colors

iPhone 16 Models Rumored to Come in These Colors

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Apple will unveil its new iPhone 16 lineup in a range of new colors later this year in the fall. Here are all the rumored colors so far for the four models: ‌iPhone 16‌, ‌iPhone 16‌ Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ Max. iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus In the last few years, ‌iPhone‌ lineups have launched with five color options. This year, however, Apple could buck that trend for the 6.1-inch ‌iPhone 16‌ and 6.7-inch ‌iPhone 16‌ Plus. At least one of the standard models will come in more color options than ever before, claims one rumor. According to the Weibo-based leaker “Fixed focus digital,” Apple’s upcoming larger 6.7-inch ‌iPhone 16‌ Plus model will come in as many as seven colors that either build upon the existing five colors in the standard iPhone 15 lineup, or recast them in a new finish. The following table shows the existing ‌iPhone 15‌ Plus color options alongside the colors rumored for the ‌iPhone 16‌ Plus: ‌iPhone 15‌ Plus (2023) ‌iPhone 16‌ Plus (2024) Blue …

Kim Kardashian Continues Teasing Different Hair Colors Ahead of Met Gala

Kim Kardashian Continues Teasing Different Hair Colors Ahead of Met Gala

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Stop teasing us, Kim Kardashian! Every May, we anticipate the reality star’s next fashion move. This year, Kardashian is keeping us on our toes with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it hair makeovers. In the past week, the mom of four has had two major hair transformations. She was sporting an icy blonde bun one minute and a pink pixie cut the next. Now, she’s back to blonde. On Wednesday, Kardashian, 43, posted an Instagram selfie wearing a blonde wig with the front pieces clipped back. “Blondes have more fun,” her hairstylist, Chris Appleton, commented. With the Met Gala less than a week away, it’s only natural to wonder: Are Kardashian’s hair color changes hinting at her Met Gala look? The iconic yellow plaid suit in the photo’s background gives away that the image isn’t recent, but rather a throwback of when the Kardashians star dressed up as Cher Horowitz from Clueless for Halloween in 2023. Whether Kardashian dyes her hair or wears a wig, we want to see it. On Monday, Kardashian revealed on Instagram a pink-dyed haircut that …

Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?

Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?

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We’ve all seen beautiful images of outer space, with vivid swirls and bright stars resting on a black abyss. With how quick it is to snap a color photo on an iPhone, you might think that sophisticated space telescopes churn out color photos automatically, too.  However, all digital cameras—from your phone to the James Webb Space Telescope—can’t actually see in color. Digital cameras record images as a bunch of ones and zeros, counting the amount of light hitting their sensors. Each pixel has a colored filter over it (either red, green, or blue), which only allows specific wavelengths of light to go through. The filters are arranged in a specific pattern (typically a four-pixel repeating square known as the Bayer pattern), which allows the camera’s computing hardware to combine the captured data into a full-colored image. Some digital cameras spread the colored filters out across three individual sensors, the data from which can similarly combine into a full-color image. Telescope cameras, however, have to take images with one filter at a time, such that they …

Goethe’s Theory of Colors: The 1810 Treatise That Inspired Kandinsky & Early Abstract Painting

Goethe’s Theory of Colors: The 1810 Treatise That Inspired Kandinsky & Early Abstract Painting

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I doubt I need to list for you the many titles of the 18th cen­tu­ry Ger­man savant and poly­math Johann Wolf­gang von Goethe, but allow me to add one or two that were new to me, at least: col­or the­o­rist (or phe­nom­e­nol­o­gist of col­or) and prog­en­i­tor of abstract expres­sion­ism. As a fas­ci­nat­ing Book­tryst post informs us, Goethe’s book on col­or, Zur Far­ben­lehre (The­o­ry of Col­ors), writ­ten in 1810, dis­put­ed the New­ton­ian view of the sub­ject and for­mu­lat­ed a psy­cho­log­i­cal and philo­soph­i­cal account of the way we actu­al­ly expe­ri­ence col­or as a phe­nom­e­non. In his account, Goethe describes how he came by his views: Along with the rest of the world, I was con­vinced that all the col­ors are con­tained in the light; no one had ever told me any­thing dif­fer­ent, and I had nev­er found the least cause to doubt it, because I had no fur­ther inter­est in the sub­ject. But how I was aston­ished, as I looked at a white wall through the prism, that it stayed white! That only where it came upon …

iPhone 16 Pro Could Come in New ‘Space Black’ and ‘Rose’ Colors

iPhone 16 Pro Could Come in New ‘Space Black’ and ‘Rose’ Colors

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Apple’s upcoming iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max models will come in new “space black” and “rose” titanium colors, claims a new rumor out of China. According to a Weibo post shared by leaker ShrimpApplePro on X (Twitter), the Blue Titanium color that iPhone 15 Pro models are currently available in will be dropped from the iPhone 16 Pro lineup in favor of the new rose color. Meanwhile, “space black,” which is said to be similar to the iPhone 14 Pro color of the same name, will replace Black Titanium. The rumor also claims that the Natural and White Titanium colors will be slightly different on the iPhone 16 Pro models. Natural Titanium is said to be returning, but with more of a gray tint to it. Meanwhile, White Titanium will appear more like a “silver white” color, which is also said to be similar to the silver version of the iPhone 14 Pro. The Weibo user that is the source of the rumor has not previously been tracked by MacRumors. However, ShrimpApplePro …