Red,blue or greenl? If we were to bellow that into,for example,your face-we hope you would,rather than calling the police,innately understand the point we were making.After you had recovered and wiped the spittle from your brow,you’d no-doubt clock that we were asking for a preference.And without much more explanation you’d probably go further and understand we were asking for,in this case,the political preferences that these colours represented.That’s because colour is deeply important to our brains...skewed as they are to visual inputs.Indeed,the psychology of colour is a well-studied field because it has such an impact on our behaviour.As such ideas and endeavours can be closely associated with colours.So we got to thinking? Just what colour can be classed as representative of science? And to those of you who say:”What an utterly pointless exercise”,we would remind you that we are the Science Lite desk-pointless exercises are our stock-in-trade.With that,we’d like to posit the following: Science is blue.
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