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Turtle's can breathe through their bum.
Without checking I think I can state as fact that it is no longer International Fact Check Day
Six out of seven dwarfs are not happy.
The ancient Greeks couldn’t see the colour blue.
Well, they could, they just didn’t have a word for it.
I'm not a psychologist, but the commentary I read on this proposed the concept that language shapes our perceptions, so if you understand what we know as blue as just shades of other colours, you don't perceive blue itself (you can obviously physically see the those wavelengths of light but don't perceive them as blue). Might be a load of sweaty testicles, but as an artist I find it an intriguing idea.
Anyway, on a similar tip. Until the fruit of the same name came to Britain, English had no specific word for the colour orange.
That Venus thing has totally blown my mind
colournoise, it's a fascinating subject; If you don't know what the colour is, can you see it..? There was an experiment conducted on a child where the child wasn't told the colour of the sky for many years until it was asked by the father. The child supposed the sky was white, it had no real frame of reference.
Blue's such an unusual colour in nature, and the Greeks developed as colour scheme that recognised predominately dark and light, so dark green, light green (that could be shades of blue) there's a line in Greek poetry that famously describes the sea as "Wine Dark" so they didn't bother to come up with a separate colour. As you say, they could obviously perceive blue, just didn't care to name it.
I'd love to go back in time, just to ask one of them what colour they thought the sky was...
Brilliant, thanks maccruiskeen!
Mrsleffe has just informed me that orchids are named after the Greek word for testicle
Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman