Roie Oknin

Roie Oknin discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Roie Oknin is an author, multidisciplinary artist, and medical student. He is the author of Ramen, Existential Crises, his debut novel, which is available at https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Ramen-Existential-Crises-by-Oknin-Roie/9789655962765. Alongside his literary and artistic practice, he works as an ophthalmology researcher and holds a B.A. in Psychology and a B.Sc. in Neuroscience.

• Colour words: The order in which languages develop basic colour words.

• Honey process coffee: Despite the name, it has nothing to do with honey.

• How we see colour: How we perceive millions of colours using signals from only three types of cone cells in our retina.

• The prosecutor’s fallacy: How easily we confuse two probabilities that sound almost identical but mean very different things.

• Evolution: Why it is not really the ladder, as we often imagine, but a branching process with no intended endpoint.

• The stockings experiment: A social psychology experiment involving identical pairs of stockings, showing how little access we may have to the reasons behind some of our own decisions.

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