Jude’s blog, chapter 4: 👅

What’s up guys I’m back. “Oh Jude, I’ve been waiting for weeks for your new blog!” Dang, really? Fan behavior, man.

Anyways, let’s get to it. Ms. Halfen gave me til Monday to find the weirdest article regarding senses that I could find, but I think as of Friday I’ve found quite the article.



Yes, if you’ve read the article, you now know that mice have taste receptors in (*drumroll*)… their testicles. Weren’t expecting to learn that tidbit, were you? Yes, through their testicles, mice are able to taste and differentiate between different flavors. Furthermore, when their taste receptors were removed, the mice were made infertile. “Taste receptors affect fertility, that’s crazy. How?”, you may be asking yourself. Scientists are left with that same question. 


My thoughts on this? Well, when I typed in “interesting articles about taste”, I figured I was in for some pretty wild stuff. Science is a crazy field, man. The article did say that this research on mice could be used for infertility research in humans, which I think could benefit humanity, so I’d say the mice research is a net positive.

Anyways, it does appear I have time, so let’s take this color vision test.

Ohhhhhh man this was hard. It looks like I was only 2 away from the perfect score, so I can’t complain (wish I could say that for that test we did on Wednesday… 😬). You don’t really sit and think, “wow, it’s so hard to differentiate the colors”, because I think in life we generalize shades of a color (ie maroon, crimson, vermillion) as just, like, red. Really makes you think about it. Like, we grew up with like those huge packs of Crayola markers and for some of them, there’s really no noticeable difference other than the name that’s been attached to that color. I think that’s kind of significant of the privilege we have, and I know that’s not necessarily THE big takeaway from this test, but it gave me a new context to look at colors with.

With that done, let’s look at that cheese video.

Nuh-uh. No. Nononononono. Never should have looked at that. Day ruined, man. No I wouldn’t eat that. Maggots? Ewwwww.

I will say, I did find the article about blue light quite interesting. Guess I'll make sure not to sleep in a room with a blue light in it.


That's all for now. I'll see y'all next time.



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