The Difference Between Blue and Green

Green is one of the classic colors that things can be. In other cultures, like, particularly before modern times, when english has become such a dominant language and culture, then there's a lot of like, linguistic relativity. And so people talk about this lot, how some cultures combine the words for blue and green or didn't have separate words for them until more recently.

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Grass... money... Ninja Turtles... some of the best things in the world are all the same color: green! This week, we're taking a deeper look at this most verdant of colors.

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https://www.wired.com/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-ii/

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Green spaces reduce systolic blood pressure

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721075914?via%3Dihub

https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/about.htm#:~:text=The%20second%20number%2C%20called%20diastolic,%E2%80%9C120%2F80%20mmHg.%E2%80%9D

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