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Blue : in search of nature's rarest color

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  • Running Time: 06:15 hrs
    Narrator: Jonathan Yen.
    Publisher:
    The Experiment, 2021
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 06:15 hrs
    Narrator: Jonathan Yen
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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    2021
    Summary:

    Blue is a rare color - natural blue, that is. From morpho butterflies in the rain forest to the blue jay flitting past your window, vanishingly few living things are blue - and most that appear so are doing sleight of hand with physics or complex chemistry. Flowers modify the red pigment anthocyanin to achieve their blue hue. Even the blue sky above us is a trick of the light. Yet this hard-to-spot accent color in our surroundings looms large in our affections. Science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt has been fascinated by blue since childhood. His quest to find and understand his favorite color and its hallowed place in our culture takes him to a gene-splicing laboratory in Japan, a volcanic lake in Oregon, and to Brandenburg, Germany - home of the last Spix's macaws. From deep underground where blue minerals grow into crystals to miles away in space where satellites gaze down at our "blue marble" planet, wherever we do find blue, it always has a story to tell.

    Contents:
    • Into the blue
    • Stones
    • Seeing
    • Plants
    • Speaking
    • Animals
    • Here was blue.
    Subject(s): Blue | Color in nature | Colors | Travel
    Original Publisher: New York, The Experiment
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781615197521, 1615197524, 9781615199068, 1615199063, 9781666107913