Blue: In Search of Natures Rarest Color Kupferschmidt Kai
Blue: In Search of Natures Rarest Color Kupferschmidt Kai A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world--and to understand our collective obsession with this captivating colorSearch human…
Specifikacia Blue: In Search of Natures Rarest Color Kupferschmidt Kai
Blue: In Search of Natures Rarest Color Kupferschmidt Kai
A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world--and to understand our collective obsession with this captivating colorSearch human history and you'll quickly conclude that we've been enamored of blue at least since the pharaohs. From the rain forest's morpho butterfly to the blue jay flitting past your window, few living things are blue--and most that appear so are performing sleight of hand with physics or chemistry. So, it's startling to turn to the realms of nature and discover that "true" blue is truly rare.
Even the blue sky above us is a trick of the light.Science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt has been fascinated by blue since childhood. Cornflowers use the pigment found in red roses to achieve their blue hue. In Blue, his quest to understand the science and nature of his favorite color takes him from a biotech laboratory in Japan and a
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