Blue

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://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/impact/2017/09/hello-bluetiful-theres-a-new-yinmn-blue-inspired-crayon

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-blue-pigment-discovered-200-years-finally-sale-180976769/

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://today.yougov.com/topics/international/articles-reports/2015/05/12/why-blue-worlds-favorite-color

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

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/14/sophisticated-ancient-faeces-shows-humans-enjoyed-beer-and-blue-cheese-2700-years-ago#