Another slight boost for the metaphor “you are what you eat”: “Carrot man: A case of excessive beta-carotene ingestion,” Randy A. Sansone [pictured here, in black-and-white] and Lori A. Sansone, International Journal of Eating Disorders, epub March 19, 2012. The authors The authors, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, report, about their report: “In this […]
Tag: color
Cereals with that patented chameleon quality
When parents warn children not to play with their food, there’s now reason to add a menacing “even if”: “even if the food begins playing with you”. Recently, food was given a new ability to play, a little, the moment it encounters milk. Researchers have patented a way to make breakfast cereal change colour as […]
Cat color and allergies?
Investigator G.J. Reynolds writes: Here’s a nice little set of papers on how the color of a cat affects its owners allergies. First, a 2000 abstract in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunologyestablishing that owners of lighter-colored cats have fewer symptoms than owners of darker-colored cats [one of the authors, Clifford Bassett, is pictured here in lieu […]
Colorful language, in a chart
Alan Kennedy’s Color/Language Project lists color idioms in many languages (thanks to Anka Pero for bringing it to our attention). Click on the non-especially-colorful image here to get to the fully-color-filled chart.
Books by the foot
Wonder Book sells books to people who want a lot of them: We sell books in bulk via our “books by the foot” service supplying interior decorators, hotels, law firms and retail chains across America with inexpensive books chosen by genre, color, and size… BOOKS BY THE FOOT: With pricing starting at $6.99 per linear […]