Inspirational Color Quotes: color Red
We all can use a little inspiration. It’s easy to concentrate on the tasks that need to be done immediately and the exigencies of our daily routines. The inspirational color quotes found in this section of the website ask you, in any way that feels right for you, to step out of the box, take a few minutes of reflection and refocus on the bigger picture. Thereafter, you might choose to take some particular action to move you in a new direction, you might want to take advantage of a quiet moment or you might choose to simply enjoy. In that spirit, here’s the inspirational color quote for this week. Of Miracles and Bridges “It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?” --J. roger Tanga (reverend/author, Treasure in the trash: You Are Worth More than You Think,, 2009) Well, good question. What would we think of Moses if he had asked his people to build a bridge rather than ask God for help when escaping from the Egyptians to cross the Red Sea? In this case, asking for a miracle was clearly the better option. The danger was immediate, and the need for speed was real. As the story goes, God was standing by, and he proved ready to comply. Moses lifted his staff; the Red Sea parted; the Israelites walked across. Moses raised his staff again. the water rose; the Egyptians were trapped; and the Israelites were once again saved. Whatever one’s beliefs about the veracity of the story, Mr. Tanga reminds us that it’s great to have the courage to think the impossible. Acts of courage, risk-taking and thinking outside the box certainly move things forward, allow for the development of innovative solutions and provide us with quite a bit of inspiration. Especially under pressure, it takes trust to call on one’s intuition and one’s creativity and to come up with the unusual solution that makes things better. Indeed, as this story tells us, such behavior can literally save the day. It’s an important reminder, and it challenges us to remember all our creativity in situations where we forget how resourceful we truly are. At the same time, let’s not forget to build those bridges. Ok, maybe that wouldn’t have helped the Israelites of old. But what about in the modern day? What if we reinterpret the quote above not as an endorsement of always going for what seems impossible but as a choice between opting for a more or a less conventional solution? When does it make sense to innovate, and when do you stick with the routine? , Of course going with the tried-and-true may not make history or get you public recognition, But let’s not underestimate having the discipline to stay the course, remembering solutions that have worked in many contexts an relying on that which may be familiar and even comforting. In the end and according to another old legend, , wasn’t it the tortoise who won the race against the hare with his consistency, his steadiness and his persistence. In some cases, the bridge may not be as dramatic as the miracle but it may prove to be exactly the right tool. How do these ideas resonate with you, and what are one or two actions you could take in the next day or so on that basis?
0 Comments
Mars Facts: Life, Water and Robots on the Red Planet
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor | November 4, 2014 09:00pm ET Mars Facts: Life, Water and Robots on the Red Planet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this shot of Mars on Aug. 26, 2003, when the Red Planet was 34.7 million miles from Earth. The picture was taken just 11 hours before Mars made its closest approach to us in 60,000 years. Credit: NASA/ESA Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Befitting the red planet's bloody color, the Romans named it after their god of war. The Romans copied the ancient Greeks, who also named the planet after their god of war, Ares. Other civilizations also typically gave the planet names based on its color — for example, the Egyptians named it "Her Desher," meaning "the red one," while ancient Chinese astronomers dubbed it "the fire star." Physical characteristics Regolith The bright rust color Mars is known for is due to iron-rich minerals in its regolith — the loose dust and rock covering its surface. The soil of Earth is a kind of regolith, albeit one loaded with organic content. According to NASA, the iron minerals oxidize, or rust, causing the soil to look red. Geology The cold, thin atmosphere means liquid water currently cannot exist on the Martian surface for any length of time. This means that although this desert planet is just half the diameter of Earth, it has the same amount of dry land. The red planet is home to both the highest mountain and the deepest, longest valley in the solar system. Olympus Mons is roughly 17 miles (27 kilometers) high, about three times as tall as Mount Everest, while the Valles Marineris system of valleys — named after the Mariner 9 probe that discovered it in 1971 — can go as deep as 6 miles (10 km) and runs east-west for roughly 2,500 miles (4,000 km), about one-fifth of the distance around Mars and close to the width of Australia or the distance from Philadelphia to San Diego. Mars has the largest volcanoes in the solar system, including Olympus Mons, which is about 370 miles (600 km) in diameter, wide enough to cover the entire state of New Mexico. It is a shield volcano, with slopes that rise gradually like those of Hawaiian volcanoes, and was created by eruptions of lavas that flowed for long distances before solidifying. Mars also has many other kinds of volcanic landforms, from small, steep-sided cones to enormous plains coated in hardened lava. Some minor eruptions might still occur on the planet. Scientists think the Valles Marineris formed mostly by rifting of the crust as it got stretched. Individual canyons within the system are as much as 60 miles (100 km) wide. They merge in the central part of the Valles Marineris in a region as much as 370 miles (600 km) wide. Large channels emerging from the ends of some canyons and layered sediments within suggest the canyons might once have been filled with liquid water. Channels, valleys, and gullies are found all over Mars, and suggest that liquid water might have flowed across the planet's surface in recent times. Some channels can be 60 miles (100 km) wide and 1,200 miles (2,000 km) long. Water may still lie in cracks and pores in underground rock. Many regions of Mars are flat, low-lying plains. The lowest of the northern plains are among the flattest, smoothest places in the solar system, potentially created by water that once flowed across the Martian surface. The northern hemisphere mostly lies at a lower elevation than the southern hemisphere, suggesting the crust may be thinner in the north than in the south. This difference between the north and south might be due to a very large impact shortly after the birth of Mars. The number of craters on Mars varies dramatically from place to place, depending on how old the surface is. Much of the surface of the southern hemisphere is extremely old, and so has many craters — including the planet's largest, 1,400-mile-wide (2,300 km) Hellas Planitia — while that of northern hemisphere is younger and so has fewer craters. Some volcanoes have few craters, which suggests they erupted recently, with the resulting lava covering up any old craters. Some craters have unusual-looking deposits of debris around them resembling solidified mudflows, potentially indicating that impactor hit underground water or ice. Polar caps Vast deposits of what appear to be finely layered stacks of water ice and dust extend from the poles to latitudes of about 80 degrees in both hemispheres. These were probably deposited by the atmosphere over long spans of time. On top of much of these layered deposits in both hemispheres are caps of water ice that remain frozen all year round. Additional seasonal caps of frost appear in the wintertime. These are made of solid carbon dioxide, also known as "dry ice," which has condensed from carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere, and in the deepest part of the winter, this frost can extend from the poles to latitudes as low as 45 degrees, or halfway to the equator. The dry ice layer appears to have a fluffy texture, like freshly fallen snow, according to the report in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets. Climate Mars is much colder than Earth, in large part due to its greater distance from the sun. The average temperature is about minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 degrees Celsius), although they can vary from minus 195 F (minus 125 C) near the poles during the winter to as much as 70 F (20 C) at midday near the equator. The carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere of Mars is also roughly 100 times less dense than Earth's on average, but it is nevertheless thick enough to support weather, clouds and winds. The density of the atmosphere varies seasonally, as winter forces carbon dioxide to freeze out of the Martian air. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found the first definitive detections of carbon-dioxide snow clouds, making Mars the only body in the solar system known to host the unusual winter weather. The red planet also causes water-ice snow to fall from the clouds. The dust storms of the Mars are the largest in the solar system, capable of blanketing the entire red planet and lasting for months. One theory as to why dust storms can grow so big on Mars starts with airborne dust particles absorbing sunlight, warming the Martian atmosphere in their vicinity. Warm pockets of air flow toward colder regions, generating winds. Strong winds lift more dust off the ground, which in turn heats the atmosphere, raising more wind and kicking up more dust. Orbital characteristics The axis of Mars, like Earth's, is tilted with relation to the sun. This means that like Earth, the amount of sunlight falling on certain parts of the planet can vary widely during the year, giving Mars seasons. However, the seasons that Mars experiences are more extreme than Earth's because the red planet's elliptical, oval-shaped orbit around the sun is more elongated than that of any of the other major planets. When Mars is closest to the sun, its southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, giving it a short, very hot summer, while the northern hemisphere experiences a short, cold winter. When Mars is farthest from the sun, the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, giving it a long, mild summer, while the southern hemisphere experiences a long, cold winter. Composition & structure Atmospheric composition (by volume): 95.32 percent carbon dioxide, 2.7 percent nitrogen, 1.6 percent argon, 0.13 percent oxygen, 0.08 percent carbon monoxide, minor amounts of water, nitrogen oxide, neon, hydrogen-deuterium-oxygen, krypton, xenon Magnetic field: Mars currently has no global magnetic field, but there are regions of its crust that can be at least 10 times more strongly magnetized than anything measured on Earth, remnants of an ancient global magnetic field. Chemical composition: Mars likely has a solid core composed of iron, nickel, and sulfur. The mantle of Mars is probably similar to Earth's in that it is composed mostly of peridotite, which is made up primarily of silicon, oxygen, iron and magnesium. The crust is probably largely made of the volcanic rock basalt, which is also common in the crusts of the Earth and the moon, although some crustal rocks, especially in the northern hemisphere, may be a form of andesite, a volcanic rock that contains more silica than basalt does. Internal structure: Scientists think that on average, the Martian core is about 1,800 and 2,400 miles in diameter (3,000 and 4,000 km), its mantle is about 900 to 1,200 miles (5,400 to 7,200 km) wide and its crust is about 30 miles (50 km) thick. Orbit & rotation Average distance from the sun: 141,633,260 miles (227,936,640 km). By comparison: 1.524 times that of Earth Perihelion (closest): 128,400,000 miles (206,600,000 km). By comparison: 1.404 times that of Earth Aphelion (farthest): 154,900,000 miles (249,200,000 km). By comparison: 1.638 times that of Earth The moons of Mars The two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, were discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall over the course of a week in 1877. Hall had almost given up his search for a moon of Mars, but his wife, Angelina, urged him on — he discovered Deimos the next night, and Phobos six days after that. He named the moons after the sons of the Greek war god Ares — Phobos means "fear," while Deimos means "rout." Both Phobos and Deimos are apparently made of carbon-rich rock mixed with ice and are covered in dust and loose rocks. They are tiny next to Earth's moon, and are irregularly shaped, since they lack enough gravity to pull themselves into a more circular form. The widest Phobos gets is about 17 miles (27 km), and the widest Deimos gets is roughly nine miles (15 km). Both moons are pockmarked with craters from meteor impacts. The surface of Phobos also possesses an intricate pattern of grooves, which may be cracks that formed after the impact created the moon's largest crater — a hole about 6 miles (10 km) wide, or nearly half the width of Phobos. They always show the same face to Mars, just as our moon does to Earth. It remains uncertain how Phobos and Deimos were born. They may have been asteroids captured by Mars' gravitational pull, or they may have been formed in orbit around Mars the same time the planet came into existence. Ultraviolet light reflected from Phobos provides strong evidence for its capture origin, according to astronomers at the University of Padova in Italy. Phobos is gradually spiraling toward Mars, drawing about 6 feet (1.8 meters) closer to the red planet each century. Within 50 million years, Phobos will either smash into Mars or break up and form a ring of debris around the planet. Both moons are potential targets for exploration. One NASA plan envisions bombarding Phobos with small, spiky spherical rovers called hedgehogs. The planet Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and named after the Roman God of War and is also called the Red Planet. The first person to watch Mars with a telescope was Galileo Galilei, and in the century after him, astronomers discovered its polar ice caps. In the 19th and 20th centuries, researchers believed they saw a network of long, straight canals on Mars, hinting at civilization, although later these often proved to be mistaken interpretations of dark regions they saw. Robot spacecraft began observing Mars in the 1960s, with the United States launching Mariner 4 there in 1964 and Mariners 6 and 7 in 1969. They revealed Mars to be a barren world, without any signs of the life or civilizations people had imagined there. In 1971, Mariner 9 orbited Mars, mapping about 80 percent of the planet and discovering its volcanoes and canyons. NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down onto the surface of Mars in 1976, the first successful landing onto the Red Planet. It took the first close-up pictures of the Martian surface but found no strong evidence for life. The next two craft to successfully reach Mars were the Mars Pathfinder, a lander, and Mars Global Surveyor, an orbiter, both launched in 1996. A small robot onboard Pathfinder named Sojourner — the first wheeled rover to explore the surface of another planet — ventured over the planet's surface analyzing rocks. In 2001, the United States launched the Mars Odyssey probe, which discovered vast amount of water ice beneath the Martian surface, mostly in the upper three feet (one meter). It remains uncertain whether more water lies underneath, since the probe cannot see water any deeper. In 2003, the closest Mars had passed to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, NASA launched two rovers, nicknamed Spirit and Opportunity, which explored different regions of the Martian surface, and both found signs that water once flowed on the planet's surface. In 2008, NASA sent another mission, Phoenix, to land in the northern plains of Mars and search for water, Two orbiters — NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA's Mars Express — are keeping Mars Odyssey company over the planet. In 2011, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, with its rover named Mars Curiosity, began to investigate Martian rocks to determine the geologic processes that created them and find out more about the present and past habitability of Mars. Among its findings is the first meteorite on the surface of the red planet. In September 2014, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission reached the red planet, making it the fourth nation to successfully enter orbit around Mars. Robots aren’t the only ones looking to buy a ticket to Mars. A workshop group of government, academic, and industry scientists have found that a NASA-led manned mission to Mars should be possible by the 2030s. But NASA isn’t the only one with Martian astronaut hopefuls.. The Mars One colony project is looking to send private citizens on a one-way trip to the red planet. Possibility of life Mars could have once harbored life. Some conjecture that life might still exist there even today. A number of researchers have even speculated that life on Earth may have seeded Mars, or that life on Mars seeded Earth. The most public scientific claim for life on Mars came in 1996. Geologist David McKay at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and his colleagues focused on rocks blasted off the surface of Mars by cosmic impacts that landed on Earth. Within they found complex organic molecules, grains of a mineral called magnetite that can form within some kinds of bacteria, and tiny structures that resembled fossilized microbes. However, these claims have proven controversial, and there is no consensus as to whether they are signs of life. Mars may have possessed oceans on its surface in the past, providing an environment for life to develop. Although the red planet is a cold desert today, researchers suggest that liquid water may be present underground, providing a potential refuge for any life that might still exist there. The rover Curiosity has found evidence for a lake that could have once supported life on the red planet, after previously establishing that the planet had the key ingredients present for life to evolve. Enthusiasm and excitement on Earth over the possibility of life on the red planet are revealed by the flurry of excitement that greets interesting objects spotted by orbiters and landers. While the Face on Mars garnered attention for the past four decades after it was first spotted by Viking 1, rovers today show close-ups of objects — such as a weathered Martian rock claimed to be a ‘thigh bone’ and a likely shiny rock that raised furor on the internet as a UFO light. http://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html The Secret to Making Really Awesome Hot Sauce
Credit: Matt Gross SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 / WRITTEN BY MATT GROSS Welcome to Out of the Kitchen, our ongoing exploration of America’s coolest food artisans. Over the next few months, we’re apprenticing with the best knife forgers, cider brewers, and spice blenders, then bringing their knowledge and expertise back to our home kitchens—and to yours. Hey! Do you want to know a secret? It’s a secret about hot sauces—and you like hot sauces, right? Well, look, I’ve tried a lot of them, from Tabasco and Sriracha to nameless concoctions in unlabeled, reused Lucozade bottles from second-tier Caribbean islands. I’ve nibbled sky-facing chiles in Chongqing housing complexes and filled bags with dried miraciels in Chiapas markets. I’ve eaten raw Reapers and lived to tell the tale. And most recently, I observed Ariel Fliman and Brian Ballan, the guys behind A&B American Style, as they whipped up an enormous batch of their flavorful pepper sauce in Queens. Now, after taking their advice and making hot sauce in my own home kitchen, I can reveal the secret: Making hot sauce is really pretty easy. See, hot sauce is pretty forgiving. Use fresh, spicy chiles and enough vinegar, and you’ll create a condiment that will set your mouth aflame in just the way you like. And there’s isn’t much you can do to screw that up, short of pouring whipping cream into the mix. The process is that simple. As Ballan explained it to me, you’ve got four elements: chiles, acid, aromatics (carrots, onions, etc.), and salt. Get roughly the right proportions of each, and you’ll wind up with something downright edible, and maybe even quite tasty. That’s not to say that making a fantastic hot sauce is easy. Quite the contrary. Mastering those proportions takes trial and error, as does navigating the different varieties of sauces—cooked, raw, fruit-based, ketchupesque.… And of course, there’s sourcing: Which of the million varieties of chiles are you going to use? Fresh, dried, or a combination of the two? What kind of acid—white vinegar, cider vinegar, citrus…? How much will different varieties of salt affect the outcome? In my own years of making hot sauces at home, I’ve come up with some I loved and others that were perfectly fine if I didn’t think too hard about them. This year, though, I wanted to be more mindful of the process, and so I set out to create one sauce that would hew to A&B’s principles, if not their precise recipe: simple, fresh ingredients you actually want to taste (carrots, onions, and two kinds of chiles, one hot, the other not so), simmered in a bath of white vinegar, puréed into a crimson slurry. Oh, and no added sugar. When you make a hot sauce this way, the most tedious part is prepping the ingredients. I shredded two fat carrots before getting bored and deciding to simply put everything else—i.e., two sliced red onions, kosher salt, a dozen cloves of garlic, and a pound of red jalapeños (the kind used for Sriracha) and red habaneros—in a pot with a quart of white vinegar and turning the heat to medium-high. Once that had simmered for a little while, I poked in my stick blender and blitzed everything into a liquid. Done! Well, not quite. The liquid was, you know, liquidy—not so much a sauce as a drizzle. Of course, it was bubbling in a pot on the stove, so I just left it there to slowly reduce, knowing that the cooking process would also temper the heat of the chiles. While that was going on, I turned my attention to my second sauce. This was to be a fantasy sauce. I’d been dreaming of a really hot sauce with a bright, sweet-tart grapefruit element—something to drizzle over, say, carnitas—but I’d been unsure how to accomplish that. In talks with Ballan at the A&B facility, we’d bandied about some theories. Don’t cook the citrus, he warned, or it would lose its oomph. Should I use grapefruit zest, too, I wondered? What kind of chiles would match well with the fruit? Ballan didn’t have hard-and-fast answers, but neither did he warn me off experimenting. His partner, however, suggested that I do so in a well-ventilated kitchen. So I experimented! The chiles consisted of maybe half a pound of lemon drops (a small, canary-yellow pepper with a sharp bite), orange habaneros, and green serranos—which presented a problem, sort of. Green chiles may look and taste great, but they often turn brown over time when made into sauce. To sidestep that, I browned them myself—blackened them, really—under my oven’s broiler. Into the pot they go. Then I put all the chiles in a quart-sized plastic container along with several good glugs of rice vinegar (which I like both for its sweetness and the way it won’t overwhelm other ingredients), kosher salt, the juice of one lime, the zest of a lemon, and the juice of half a ruby-red grapefruit. Why those specific citruses? The lime was for pure acidity, the lemon zest for a more rounded citrus flavor, and the grapefruit for its intense fruitiness. Into the container went the stick blender again, and 60 seconds later I had a new hot sauce. Would it be any good? I dipped in a spoon, scooped out a small blob of black-flecked green, and brought the bite to my mouth—it exploded on contact! In an instant, every part of my mouth was aflame, yet suffused with that sweet-tart intensity of grapefruit. And although the heat lingered as I hoped it would, it also leveled off, revealing the smokiness that came from roasting the serranos. This, by some wonderful magic, was an excellent concoction. Would the A&B-style sauce turn out likewise? After an hour’s simmer, it had reduced enough to take it off the heat. And while I knew I could taste it straight, it didn’t seem right. But this was meant to be enjoyed with food. So I got to work again, poaching a whole chicken in a small pot with ginger, scallions, and garlic, removing the chicken after 20 minutes to an ice bath, and cooking rice in the new chicken stock. This you may recognize as a version of Hainanese chicken rice, the Singaporean classic that is meant to accompanied by a hot sauce made from red chiles, vinegar, and garlic—precisely what I’d made. And, yeah, as an accompaniment to food, it was good! My sauce was hotter than what A&B makes, and maybe less market-fresh (more carrots next time?), but still a fabulous counterpart to the cool chicken and stock-saturated rice. It hit me (and my wife) with a vinegary punch, but didn’t outstay its welcome. You could eat it with every bite and not blow out your taste buds. The thing is, now that I’ve made hot sauces more mindfully, thanks to A&B, I’m not sure what I (or you) should do differently next time—besides everything. “Hot sauce” as a concept is fantastic, but it’s hardly one-size-fits-all. You like what you like, and use it wherever seems right. Who am I to tell you how to make it, except to keep in mind Ballan’s quadruplets—chiles, acid, aromatics, salt? I will, however, tell you that you should definitely make hot sauce at home. The homemade version, no matter how you home-make it, tastes fresher, more alive, more satisfying than anything you’d ever get from a store. (Trust me, I taste-tested dozens of varieties for a competition, and would still probably choose a janky-but-fresh homebrew over all but a few.) And chiles, generally speaking, are highly affordable, so what’s there to lose? Buy a couple of pounds, break out the stick blender, and make enough to give bottles to your friends. And I’m your friend now, right? http://www.bonappetit.com/people/out-of-the-kitchen/article/secret-awesome-hot-sauce 10 Fun Facts About Apples
By Rachel Bertone - July 9, 2012 Here are 10 interesting facts you probably didn’t know about apples, the quintessential American fruit (after all, the phrase isn’t “as American as pumpkin pie…”): More than 2,500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States, but only the crabapple is native to North America. Apples contain no fat, sodium or cholesterol and are a good source of fiber. Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit. Apples ripen six to 10 times faster at room temperature than if they are refrigerated. Apple varieties range in size from a little larger than a cherry to as large as a grapefruit. The largest apple ever picked weighed 3 pounds. Apples harvested from an average tree can fill 20 boxes that weigh 42 pounds each. Apples are a member of the rose family. The top apple producers around the world are China, United States, Turkey, Poland and Italy. Apples account for 50 percent of international deciduous fruit tree production. A peck of apples weighs 10.5 pounds. A bushel of apples weighs about 42 pounds. It takes about 36 apples to create one gallon of apple cider. http://www.farmflavor.com/at-home/cooking/10-fun-facts-about-apples/ Interesting Facts
Interesting Facts About Red Color MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2008 Red also means "Beautiful" in Russian. The word "ruby" comes from the Latin word rubens, meaning "red". The color red doesn't really make bulls angry; They are color-blind. There are at least 23 different shades of red crayons. The red stripes on the United States Flag stand for courage. Chinese brides traditionally wear red wedding dresses for good luck. Seeing the color red can make your heart beat faster. As few as two percent of people in the United States have red hair. The color red is most often associated with power and passion. It is a fierce and emotionally intense color. Red symbolizes speed, sexuality, and style. Fast cars are red. Beautiful women wear red clothes and red lipstick. Red is also the color of romance and love. If you want to express your love for a woman with flowers, the flowers must be red. In all cases, whether red is worn by a woman, or used in home décor, it will always attract attention. Red often gives conflicting messages. Red means "stop" when used on a street light, but it means "go" when worn as lipstick or given as flowers. Red means danger when used on signs and fire extinguishers. Red means both romantic love and sexual lust. Red is the color of Communism, but it also symbolizes Christmas when mixed with the colors green, white, and gold. There are many variations of red: scarlet and vermilion are the shocking and extreme reds, while pink, maroon, and crimson are subtler reds. Fashion experts always recommend at least a splash of red when dressing for a job interview or any other important meeting, because red symbolizes power, decisiveness and leadership. In home décor, red is rarely used as a base color but often as highlights. One wall of a room may be painted red to create a feature wall that attracts attention. A sofa may be splashed with red cushions. A centerpiece of red flowers may be used for a special dinner event. Red is so intense a color that it doesn't suit everyone. A rule of thumb: drive a red car, but wear black. Red clothing has the effect of making a person look fuller than they really are. In all instances, red is an extreme color and should be chosen with caution. Light red represents joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, and love. Pink signifies romance, love, and friendship. It denotes feminine qualities and passiveness. Dark red is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath. Reddish-brown is associated with harvest and fall. http://igentry.blogspot.com/2008/11/interesting-facts-about-red-color.html 4 surprising facts about the color red
The Week Staff June 9, 2011 Red: The color of blood, passion, courage, and certain Gap ad campaigns. Scientists say red, more than other colors, provokes clearly identifiable reactions in human beings. Here, four recent findings that may change the way you look at crimson: 1. Red intensifies our physical reactions Seeing red causes people to react faster and more forcefully, according to a new study published in the journal Emotion. Our bodies react to red, a culturally ingrained signal of danger, as if we've seen a threat, says study author Andrew Elliot of the University of Rochester, as quoted by MSNBC. The reaction doesn't last long, and people aren't even aware of it, but, according to UPI, the findings "may have applications for sporting and other activities in which a brief burst of strength and speed is needed, such as weightlifting." 2. Red makes men more desirable to women Men in red are "more attractive, more powerful and more sexually desirable to women," according to another study by Elliot, cited by CBS News. The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, asked women to rate pictures of men framed by or wearing a variety of colors. The women rated men in red "higher in status and more likely to earn a better living." That perception, which may stem from the fact that red pigmentation indicates male dominance in a number of animal species, leads to the attraction. Earlier research found that men also find women in red more attractive because the color suggests "sexual receptivity." 3. Red is the color of winners The color red can be intimidating — just ask Tiger Woods, who famously wears red on the final day of golf tournaments (and, until recently, tended to triumph). A 2005 study by British scientists found that athletes wearing red "have an advantage over blue-suited competitors," according to MSNBC. "We find that wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning," the researchers wrote in the journal Nature. The effect is subtle, though, so it may only factor in when evenly matched competitors face off. 4. Red can cause failure on exams Seeing "even a hint of red" on an exam can affect a test-taker's performance "to a significant degree," researchers reported in 2007. Perhaps because instructors often use red ink to mark errors, people associate the color "with mistakes and failures," and, "in turn, they do poorly on" the exam in front of them. Sources: MSNBC (2), CBS, UPI, Epoch Times, Science Daily http://theweek.com/articles/484145/4-surprising-facts-about-color-red What comes to mind when you think of the ninth month of the year? Events? Associations? Colors? Well, summer adventures are over. we’re back to school. Back to work. Yay, back to cooler weather! Sometimes in different guises (still school but new classes), We’re back into the routine; falling back on old habits; focusing on the kinds of things we always have. Back to the same-old, same-old? Well, the color of the month for September certainly wants to remind us that it doesn’t have to be that way. It may still be school, but it’s also new classes and new friends. It may be the same job, but it’s the fall 2016 version of the job. It’s many of the same friends and family, but what about deepening connections with them? The color of the month—and around the world surveys show it to be the second most popular color—tells us to approach same-old, same-old with a new and joyful spirit of adventure and passion. The color is “assertive, daring, determined, energetic, powerful, enthusiastic, impulsive, exciting, and aggressive…. It symbolizes action, confidence, and courage.” Well ok, maybe you don’t want to be that excited and energetic all the time. But at a time when it’s easy to get sucked into the routine, this color does remind us to approach that routine with a spirit of new energy and new excitement. True, Sometimes the color is associated with anger and even aggression. A good opportunity to figure out what upsets us? More often, it’s linked to some really positive feelings, including passion and love. In either case, there’s strong emotion here, and the color urges us to fully engage and to express that emotion. Similarly, The color “is a highly visible color that is able to focus attention quickly and get people to make quick decisions.” Apparently in good ways, we React faster and more forcefully when we see this color; experts remind us to have this color around when we need some quick bursts of energy and confidence. It’s a primary color, and it provides a beacon to action! Finally, the bottom line is that it is thought that that wearing this color is linked to a higher probability of success and of getting what you want. Other things equal (which admittedly is not always the case), athletes who wear this color are often more likely to come out winners than those who wear other colors. Hmm, if it’s that simple, how about the rest of us following their lead? In recognition of the desire to imbue our old routines with a new spirit of energy; in acknowledgment of the courage it takes to increase confidence and to take action; and in celebration of the bottom line that each of us is a winner, the color of the month is… a very bright and energetic red. A Resource for You “Are you a Red, Blue, Yellow or Green Personality Type?” Check out the following link, learn something about yourself and find a way to have some fun with what you’ve learned.” (https://general-psychology.knoji.com/which-color-personality-are-you-red-blue-green-or-yellow/ ) The color personality https://www.colorcode.com/personality_test/ Note: Information for these articles comes from the following websites: Rick Riordan http://rickriordan.com/ Red is the second favorite color http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-most-popular-color-in-the-157991 Born creative http://borncreative.net/ Fun facts about the color red http://igentry.blogspot.com/2008/11/interesting-facts-about-red-color.html |
AuthorI am a Life Coach, a Color Wisdom Card Practitioner, and yes, even a Professor (political science, State University of New York at Albany). I use the Color Wisdom Cards to support clients in exploring priorities and taking concrete actions to stay on track with the goals they set. Because in my own life I have overcome a lot of self-doubt, I want to work with people towards more confidence and self-empowerment. You can do it! What is it you want to do? Categories
All
Archives
June 2021
|