I'm amazed at the dress debate: The White and gold, no, blue and black, dress that the mother of the bride wore, that melted the Internet. Kasey and I talked about and even agreed on its colors. Other employees came in to the studio to give us their two cents.

From a photo of the dress the bride posted online, there was no consensus. A few days following the wedding recently, a member of the wedding party so frustrated by the amount of disagreement that she posted a picture of the now famous dress on Tumblr, and asked for feedback. And wow, did she get reaction! Within a half-hour the photo migrated to Buzzfeed, Facebook and Twitter, to mention a few. As the debate lit the Internet on fire, everybody had an opinion, and everyone was convinced the he, or she, was right!

So whenever I need mentoring in issues like this, I turn to my 16-year old awesome granddaughter, Aleksis. Here's what she wrote: "Some people see this dress as white and gold. Others, see this dress as blue and black... It's due to a phenomenon called COLOR CONSTANCY. Your brain looks at the context and sees a shadow, and instantly assumes the color is darker. Shadow = darker. The brain compensates and imagines the image to be LIGHTER. Since the picture is so close up you cannot see the dress' surroundings! From there it is simply up to perception. Those of you who are ‪#‎TeamWhiteandGold‬ , your brains... are interpreting the dress in a blue lit room (natural light, next to a window etc.) Those of you who are ‪#‎TeamBlackandBlue‬ are interpreting the dress from an artificially lit setting (yellow light) as a result the brain sees black and blue. (This is my extra credit biology assignment, I am sick of this dress already and needed this to die down... And extra points in bio lol)" And that last statement from Aleksis brings me to the conclusion that it's nice to know with all the issues facing the planet, millions of people around the globe can get caught up in a color controversy.

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