Blue
SciShow Tangents
The Color Blue
The color blue is not red, it's not yellow. If you look inside and outside, blue the sky. Some things are just blue out there like sapphires and some bodies of water. The color blue has wavelengths between about the color blue. It is a subjectively experienced also experience.
From trustworthy to calming, sad to steadfast, and, of course, jeans - the color blue means a lot of things to a lot of people. Join Team Tangents as we delve into this deceptively complicated primary color!
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Sources:
[Trivia Question]
YInMn blue unnamed element
https://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/chemistry-news-events/yinmn-blue
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/style/blue-pigment-YInMn.html
https://colourlex.com/project/yinmn-blue/
[Fact Off]
Blue dye blocking ATP for spinal cord injuries
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/blue-dye-may-hold-promise-in-treating-spinal-cord-injury
https://www.wired.com/2009/07/bluerats/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brilliant-blue-spine
https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-07/good-news-animal-lovers-and-folks-spinal-injuries/
Vivianite blue found on bones, shells, and other remains
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vivianite-blue-human-remains
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9871987/
https://www.kristineballard.com/vivianite-blue/
https://www.uaf.edu/museum/press/spotlight/blue-babe/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X21001309
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199809)107:1%3C1::AID-AJPA1%3E3.0.CO;2-R
[Ask the Science Couch]
Color psychology: blue and marketing/logos
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook
https://www.joehallock.com/?page_id=1281
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11747-010-0245-y
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3151897
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/SJME-03-2018-005/full/html
[Butt One More Thing]
Evidence of blue cheese in Austrian paleofeces
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/930931
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01271-9
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