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how about taking a few risks you could even take a chance on love. don't expect happy ending. the church. if you tune to tomorrow today the science show on d w. today we get colorful how do colors affect people do they influence our consumer behavior. and greenish great was that really what dinosaurs looked like you may be in for a surprise. also we visit a french biotech company that's using bacteria to make environmentally friendly
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dies. in the 17th century the physicist isaac newton was one of the 1st to experiment with color and light. he discovered that white light is a mixture of rays of different color which is separated with a prism. that helps explain how raindrops refract sunlight to form a rainbow. color and lice inspired move us to play even manipulate us. busy busy what effect do colors have on us the internet certainly has no shortage of popular science tips on the subject read is said to have a stimulating influence blue instills a feeling of trust and glean has a relaxing in fact. what can the impact of colors be scientifically proven. and what are colors exactly the human eye is able to distinguish between millions of
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colors although none of them are such tangible in objective terms the colors are just different wavelength a tiny section of electromagnetic radiation ranging from x. rays and ultraviolet light to radio waves wavelengths between 40780 nanometers are visible to the human eye. in this range we can see radiation in the form of color. wavelength combined result in white lights so how do we perceive individual colors. when white light strikes an object a part of it is absorbed while the rest is reflected so not all wavelengths reach our eyes. our brain receives and interprets the reflected light leading us to perceive a tomato for example as red. so colors are a question of the mind rather than matter is that also why they can emotionally influence us to get vela is
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a product designer she has over 20 years experience analyzing colors and their impact. the 3 different colors everywhere that have particular meanings including a little meaning so it's important to take a sensitive approach to the issue. and you also have to be careful when it comes to choosing color schemes what effect different colors have. meant shower gels with a red design for example are intended to evoke the traditional symbolism of power and strength in the west and make users feel important this hairspray comes in a yellow canister due to associations with the famous german brand of glue the message being it's long lasting and green now adorns all manner of products thought of as natural cure and pristine so this color coded marketing actually work. i mean if you ask a girl which hand shape or she would buy a dark blue one. or
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a pink one she'll always choose a pink one. it's a clear example of products having an identical performance and the color manipulating as it leads to a feeling of belonging. but that effect. varies according to our respective culture how colors influence us is partially determined by our upbringing the effects of red and green however appear to lie to some extent in evolution a concept that psychologist heiko hatched investigated in an experiment. by using the same wine we asked one group of people to sample it in a room with red lighting and another group with green lighting it made a huge difference. to affect. the test group with the green lighting found the wine more acidic and not so appealing while the group viewing the wine
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under red light found it mellow and better tasting and were even willing to spend a year or more on a bottle of wine. a red color in our food is associated with brightness and enhances our impression of sweetness. the fact that red light can trigger a similar effect was however a new finding. can the same color also affect our mental focus. put back to the test to. test persons were randomly placed in rooms with different colors and asked to complete the same math and language exercises and brainteasers but the results were all similar in this case read made no discernible difference so what caused the effect with wine. type as a side it seems to be something that isn't part conveyed through our emotions relatively short term records has to be vocal suddenly everything is bathed in red
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which creates a particular mood so that we in turn project on to the why and. protect. but if i get students to complete a test sitting for a whole hour in a reading room their perception adapts relatively quickly. so that they no longer notice the color around them. so the impact of colors on us depends on the situation. colors have a short term effect on our emotions but after a while the brain adapts to its surroundings and blanks out the colors and it all happens without us noticing a thing. colors often have different meanings in different societies in europe black is often associated with death and mourning. in china and india white symbolizes the pallor of the dead.
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we'll still without any color has special meaning in your culture. america has a right that the car if enough people in hunter s. believe that red drives away evil spirits. is the key here says in guatemala blue green stands for life and hope he says no one would go into a pharmacy with a black or red frontage. and according to power people in peru bring in the new year with yellow including yellow underwear that's a cute tradition thanks for your answers. to 80 percent of people who spend time in the intensive care unit after surgery experience central nervous system complications that many fest as delirium. this can result in lasting damage to the brain. surgeon medications and high dosages can
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help but a hospital in bogota or destroying an alternative. color plays a big role in the health industry pills for instance come in a variety of colors white is mainly for pain killers. red orange is used for stimulants. and we all know what that little blue pill is for. but what about the color you see 1st thing in the morning maybe red. blue. or green. could that influence your well being it's a question being researched at helios university hospital the tile in germany. head of intensive care gabriela verb and color expert axel buthe a convince the color of hospital rooms could have an immense impact on patients' health. on one
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try it out in hospitals not make them excessively colorful but carefully restructure them using our knowledge of how colors of factors like in this room why . no more sterile white hospital corridors wards and workstations. conducted a study to see what impact it had in the intensive care unit. over a period of 24 months they tried out different shades the walls were painted in pastel and earth tones and the lighting was changed they asked patients before and after the revamp how they felt about their treatments. nurse tilman kearney saw the impact on his seriously ill patients 1st hand. this is i think these are. the colors of had a real effect on our patients you could say that the patients suffer less from
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delirium in. their orientation remains better and in general they feel better and. delirium is a common problem in hospitals to ticky amongst the most critically ill color helped relax the patients they were less likely to suffer from disorientation and anxiety dr vrba was skeptical at 1st but the evidence wasn't purely anecdotal she saw clear results in the medication used to treat delirium. which most astonishing for me was the use of medication which was extremely influenced in all 3 stations on average it was reduced by almost 30 percent. using color in hospitals is not completely new. and close to berlin is now
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abandoned but once it used to house tuberculosis patients it's originally opened in 1000 no 2 and was renovated in the 1920 s. using more color. guide believes the change was meant to serve patients. on water i'm for the in i'd walk they wanted to avoid the impression of a sterile hospital which was at that time still very calm and they wanted to create an atmosphere of comfort and wellbeing for their patients and order to assist the healing process. begins. for color expert axel puta it's no surprise that different hues could have such a strong effect on our health. we perceive colors and that makes something happen in our bodies colors can directly influence our breathing even our blood sugar levels you may be familiar with that when you see a delicious
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a color and feel like eating even though you're not hungry like when there's a pretty picture of a dessert on the menu. while standing up blood sugar goes down and we feel hungry and eat something we don't need it. and gabriella burka are continuing to work on the impact of color in the hospital's intensive care unit after looking at color and light they want to consider other factors as well such as noise and smells. they see a lot of potential for improving patients' lives. if our blood is red why awfully glad you gave it. do you have a science question that you've always wanted answered it we're happy to help you out send it to us as a video text ovoid smell if we answer it on the show. we'll send you a little surprise as a thank you card just ask. if you find as i do w dot
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com slash science or drop us a line at d w underscore site tech on facebook d w dot science for this week's question comes from morocco is black a color. well there are plenty of black things cars cabs the famous little black dress classic shoes even butterfly. the paint palette ranges from black to white pigment all of these are colors right. surprise physically speaking black isn't really a color and neither is white nor gray. an object is considered to have color if it reflects light of a certain wavelength. a yellow banana reflects the yellow part of the light spectrum it absorbs all the other colors so only yellow light reaches the receptor
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is in the eye. the effect of the color is the work of the brain. a black object absorbs all the frequencies of the visible spectrum in the most extreme case reflecting nothing. why things reflect all the spectral colors that's clear to see using a prism if we frets the life from the white object into it spectral components all the colors of the rainbow. so is it wrong to say that this happens as the color black no not really wrong because we perceive black as a color like any other. so the agreement is to call black and color just like winds and grey. by the way researchers all over the world are hunting for the darkest possibility or. so far the record is held by fans have black this
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material made of carbon nanotubes reflects just 0.035 percent of this is. an uptick coated with it looks completely fluent. it's been called the closest thing to a black hole that we'll ever see up close. in the animal world by contrast things are colorful no matter where you live on the ground . underwater. bouncing up and. then put on some of the best chimes of color. but what was the case with their ancestors the dinosaurs. measured 25 meters in length and why did you not 20 tons the plant eating dinosaur diplodocus. the 150000000 year old skeleton of
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the sinking back museum in frankfurt comes back to life with the help of 3 d. goggles. the dinosaur resembles today's lizards it's greenish gray code has dark come of large stripes. animations of the to run a source rex typically have a similar coloration. so why these particular colors. this is it it's represented this way because that's the way it's been done for decades and that's what viewers expect and we can't rule out that some dinosaurs may have been yellow with red dots and that may not be the most likely assumption but we can't scientifically disprove it. this is. so the primordial predator may have been dark green or brown. or maybe
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red. all multi-colored. but whatever the color they probably served a purpose animal of pigmentation acts as a signal or as a camouflage to terence or for courtship displays and that was true in the age of dinosaurs too. but the university of bristol jacobi winter has succeeded in reconstructing color patterns of feathered dinosaurs. here the poly intelligence is examining electron microscope images of fossilized skin samples there from a 130000000 year old to talk of source. even after such a long time some tiny structures of skin pigments have been preserved they're known as milan assumes. they or. a 1000th of a millimeter we can see that they are sort of quite short and sort of egg shaped or
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rounded in shape and that's very typical of. that give that to brown color and when we look at living mammals or for example living pose we will see that when they have these reddish brown colors and a lot of some stay would have this type of shape. today's birds are descendants of the dinosaurs they're variously shaped manana sums which correspond to dark reddish or bright colors are also found in a number of well preserved dinosaur fossils a sensational discovery. one that enables precise color reconstructions for species of sinister up to rick's m kyon it microraptor or citic a source which have been extinct for more than 100000000 years. back in frankfurt then compared museum posts one of the world's most spectacular dinosaur fossils it's a secure source species that gal maya i studied with into. misrata so
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for me it was kind of like traveling through time back into the past he'll usually have singled loans or skeletons of dinosaurs and here we practically have an entire cadaver with all the skin structures of the original animals here that's very unusual. this is probably the best preserved dinosaur fossil that we know in terms of the preservation of its skin. as it's not only a nearly complete skeleton but a nearly complete skin covering a kind of black shadow or the skin. if one here in the front is a kind of keratin covering over a bone spur that's very clear and in fact the most bizarre thing about this fossil is the long bristles on the top of the tail that haven't been seen in any other dinosaur kinds and. the incredibly lucky find has enabled the researchers to reconstruct the animal's color patterns. using the data gathered in
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frankfurt. winter and his colleagues created a life sized 3 d. model of this it took a source. convent examined it and open on forests like environments. based on the patterns of light and dark the researchers believe the little her book or lived in the woods it's counter shading dark on the back and lighter on the knee is a form of come of the large that protects animals from predators in forest have a chance. it was a very small dinosaur compared to many of the other forms that were there and therefore it probably was quite low on the food chain which meant that it did not want to be very conspicuous in its environment and that's why we have these types of patterns we were able to look at the. and we could show that they were sort of
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a typical sort of reddish brown color which fits very well that the type of forest litter the soil and leaves that we would have in a forest and then we can see you know the color shading which would be really important for making it look almost flat for the predators that would have been around back then. and it may have enabled the diminutive dinosaur to walk safely through the forest on 2 legs. dinosaur pigmentation tells us a lot about life on earth 100000000 years ago. although we still don't know exactly what t.-rex looked like one of its relatives found in china might even have had fluffy feathers cute but no less dangerous. it's possible to find reasonably priced paints these days but that wasn't always so ultra marine blue made from the gemstone lapis lazuli was very expensive. in
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ancient rome purple had to be extracted from snails laboriously only emperor and nero was allowed to wear the color. when it became possible to manufacture paints and dye synthetically they became available to everyone but that doesn't mean they're sustainable a french stars have is now planning to change things. this may look like modern art but it's virtually a natural process at work believe it or not these blue color trails unmade by bacteria. we've known for decades that mike. organisms can produce pigments because what we're doing today at p. levy is expanding their production to an industrial scale with a view to replacing the production of petrochemical dyes worldwide long. 70 blatche and beyond. say they're the 1st to study this extraordinary natural process they're the founders of the french start up based in to lose they see these
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microorganisms this great alliance that could be used to color all our clothes without any chemicals for years they worked to identify the microorganisms best able to produce color. these microorganisms contain 2 types of enzymes firstly enzymes that sugar molecules from detroit for example and secondly enzymes that can reassemble those molecular fragments to make colorful dye molecules. in 2015 they finally developed a low carbon method to obtain pigment for dying textiles it's a method that's been used for centuries in the food industry you know we allow these microorganisms to ferment to bit mike fermenting beer. but instead of consuming sugar to make alcohol the microorganisms are consuming sugar to make dies . because of that. it takes
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a week and warm temperatures for the blue pigment to appear the substance is then tried to obtain a biodegradable powder. who power is suitable for dyeing different types of fabric depending on the formulas we apply we can produce colors ranging from burgundy to light blue. believe has set its focus on india and china the biggest textile producers the company dreams of transforming the whole production chain making it more sustainable could believe help to lose return to its heyday when the city. as the capital of blue. doing there in the french city blossomed thanks to the pastel blue business the soft blue dye was derived from a local plant but the flourishing industry slowly declined from the early 19th century. nowadays to loose has abandoned the industrial scale production of the natural pigment but there are still signs throughout the city that hark back to the
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glory days of the business. so far the startup has produced several kilos of dye powder with the help of the bacteria but they will need to improve the process if they're to compete with petro chemical dyes to reduce costs they're planning to use cultural waste as a substitute for sugar. but. that's a big advantage is that we can take all of the leftovers like stands leaves or other parts of the crop and use them as a source of carbon so we can kill 2 birds with one stone they don't offer didn't feel that the fight 202170 palash and his team expect to be producing several tons of dipole to a year we might then be able to find close died without pigment but they would need more time more money and more production capacity to become
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