Man, I really like the color yellow, what about you?
Yes my favorite is the yellow that lemons are colored.
Oh really? Does that specific shade of yellow have a different name or anything?
I think it's called lemon yellow lol but the color is caused by carotenoids.
Interesting, what are those?
They are organic compounds produces by plants and algae. There are over 600 known carotenoids.
Wow, that's really neat Do you know why they cause lemons to be yellow?
as egg yolks, buttercups, and bananas. They absorb light energy and protect plants from photodamage. Sunlight has a slight yellowish hue when sun is near a horizon, due to atmosphere scattering shorter wavelengths (green, blue, and violet).
Because it was widely available, yellow ochre pigment was one of the first colors used in art; the Lascaux cave in France has a painting of a yellow horse 17,000 years old. Ochre and orpiment pigments were used to represent gold and skin color in Egyptian tombs, then
. So that can be studying botany, or organic science, or astronomy and really trying to extract the things that make us who we are by studying those different things and magnifying those things. The things that make us the same, basically, verses the things that make us different. Which is what I think I spend a lot of time doing. When I in my teens, it was all about, you know, "Well how am I different?" My way of thinking is like this, and these