More typical, however, was the farmer who told Professor Stratton: “In referring to the saying, ‘Like waving a red rag before a bull,’ I have found that to wave anything before a bull is dangerous business.” (That’s an excerpt from the article “Colorful Research Review,” published in AIR 14:4.)
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Color Preference in the Insane Reconsidered
A study done 54 years later by Holmes and his colleagues casts doubt on the value of pondering color preference in the insane. (That’s an excerpt from the article “Colorful Research,” published in AIR 14:4.)
Alchemy’s Shower of Gold
Trouble comes to the Alchemist, 17-18th century,17th century Netherlandish. (FA 2000.001.269. Oil on canvas Fisher Collection Chemical Heritage Foundation Collections.) Photo by Will Brown. Paintings of alchemists show them holding up flasks. The contents of those flasks are almost always golden in color. That’s because alchemists were obsessed with urine. And no wonder. The limits […]
Blue Eyes Glued on Blue-Eyes
“Why Do Blue-Eyed Men Prefer Women with the Same Eye Color?” Bruno Laeng, Ronny Mathisen and Jan-Are Johnsen, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 61, 2007, pp. 371–84( http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-006-0266-1). The authors, at the University of Tromso, Norway, report: “Close-up photos of young women and adult men with either blue or brown eyes were rated for their […]