Poisonous Pigments
In the past, wearing makeup and hanging wallpaper could have killed you Today we can express ourselves using products on…
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The Evolution of Pigments in Society
Pigments, paints and decoration. Using colours to express ourselves seems to be unique to humans. Other species of the Homo…
The Evolution of the Colour Brown in Society
Brown is essentially a dark orange. It is achieved by adding together orange and varying amounts of black. It is…
The Evolution of Orange in Society
Orange is the second colour of the rainbow, with reasonably long wavelengths, red having the longest. It is a secondary…
The Evolution of Yellow in Society
Yellow is the third colour in the rainbow with relatively long wavelengths. Red is the first with the longest wavelength…
The Evolution of the Colour White in Society
White is essentially all the colours put together, in terms of white light. The colour white used as a dye…
The Evolution of Red in Society
Red is the first colour that all cultures shared and the first colour to be named other than black and…
The Evolution of Purple in Society
Purple is rich warm colour, close to violet on the spectrum making it one of the last colours to be…
The Evolution of Pink in Society
Pink is a lighter version of red. It is the only colour, maybe except grey, that has its own category…
The Evolution of Gold in Society
Gold is a chemical element, a transition metal and inert (doesn’t react with almost anything). Its atomic number is 79,…
The Evolution of Agriculture- The Timeline
Agriculture began around 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. This was the beginning of the warm interglacial period of…
The Evolution of the Colour Black in Society
Black is the absence of colour. In the physical sense, it is when an object absorbs all the light waves…
The Evolution of Green in Society
Green is in the middle of the colour spectrum and so represents balance and harmony. Being the colour of nature,…
The Evolution of Blue in Society
Blue has the shortest wavelengths of the colour spectrum making blues and violets the last colours to be seen, red…
The Evolution of Taxonomy
Taxonomy is the study of naming and defining biological organisms in order to group them together according to common characteristics.…