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Red means stop, green means go, and yellow means hurry up and make that damn light. Why those colors, though? Why not blue, purple, and brown? I have to admit that aside from a hunch that it had to do with wavelengths, I had no idea myself, so I deci

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TED演讲:这个世界需要各种心智

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