CRSC Members' Night Bookclub: Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt
Wed, Dec 11
|Virtual Event
CRSC Members' Night!! Discuss Kai Kupferschmidt's fascinating treatise on the story of blue. Meet and network with fellow CRSC Members.
Time & Location
Dec 11, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Virtual Event
About the event
CRSC Members' Night: Come and discuss Kai Kupferschmidt's Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color
"A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world—and to understand our collective obsession with this captivating color
Search human history and you’ll quickly conclude that we’ve been enamored of blue at least since the pharaohs. So, it’s startling to turn to the realms of nature and discover that “true” blue is truly rare. From the rain forest’s morpho butterfly to the blue jay flitting past your window, few living things are blue—and most that appear so are performing sleight of hand with physics or chemistry. Cornflowers use the pigment found in red roses to achieve their blue hue. Even the blue sky above us is a trick of the light.
Science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt has been fascinated by blue since childhood. In Blue, his quest to understand the science and nature of his…