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the color your brain sees first, last, and in your dreams of danger.
means The color at the long-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, seen in blood, fire, ripe fruit, and warning signs.
from From Old English 'rēad,' rooted in the Proto-Germanic '*raudaz' and traceable back to the Proto-Indo-European '*h₁rewdʰ-,' a color-word so ancient it seeded a whole family — Latin 'ruber' (red), 'rufus' (reddish), the 'rubies' and 'rubric' that follow, and likely cousins like 'rust' and 'ruddy.' One of humanity's oldest named colors, fittingly born from the words for blood and ore.
- longest wavelength
- travels farthest, scatters least, owns every sunset
- stop signal
- chosen because it cuts through fog best
- bull myth
- bulls are colorblind to red, they hate movement
- oldest pigment
- ochre painted caves 40,000 years ago
- heart rate
- seeing it actually speeds your pulse up
red sea — body of water between africa and asia, 1,200 miles long, named for its reddish algae blooms
red square — public plaza in moscow, russia, center of the city since the 15th century
red planet — mars, called this for its reddish appearance due to iron oxide in its soil