Episode 2--Colo(u)r and U

In this episode, I look at colour: what it is, where it comes from, and how we use it in magick. WTF is up with colour correspondences anyway? In the science segment (who am I kidding, this is mostly science!), I talk about tomatoes! Specifically, canned tomatoes (how do they work? Protip: not miracles!), and how you can preserve more delicate fruits and vegetables without turning them into mush.





I promise next episode will not involve science.  Promise promise.





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I totally forgot to put contact info in the last show! You can comment on the blog, email me at [email protected], or tweet me!

Visible spectrum by ascending wavelength/descending energy.  By Spigget on Wikimedia Commons; licensed CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Electromagnetic wave; ±q is the electrical component (E⃗, blue); red (B⃗) is the magnetic component.  Figure at right is a head-on view of the wave, as if it were coming out of the page.  k⃗ is the velocity of the wave.  By SuperManu on Wikimedia Commons; licensed CC-BY-uSA.








Helpful links for the perplexed:

Planck's Constant: 6.626 × 10-34Js

Huygens-Fresnel Principle

Schrödinger Equation (not for the faint of heart)

FRET

cis-trans Isomerism

Opsins (visual pigments)

Perception of Colour





Plasmodesmata

Pectins!

D-Galacturonic acid and its parent sugar, D-Galactose (aka D-Gal)

Brønsted-Lowry and Lewis acids





Credits:

Recorded/Mixed with Audacity under Ubuntu.Intro: Cold Funk.  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Science Intro: MTA.  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/; voicover:Bino the Elephant. Jason Steele (filmcow.com)Outro: Raw.  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Please, God, tell me I have not inspired something burgundy..." Lola (Chiwete Ejiofor) in Kinky Boots (2005), Julian Jarrold, dir., Geoff Dean & Tim Firth, writers.  Constitutes fair use.