Tulips
Tulips: the first 3000ish years
Tulips have a much longer and more illustrious history than we previously thought.
Bible
Bible
The Biblical (and Post-Biblical) Blues
An iconoclastic exploration into the biblical colors of tekhelet and argaman.
Psychology
What exactly is a favorite color?
While the simple question “what is your favorite color?” seems rather straightforward, three out of the five words are anything but. And here are roughly 5600 words to prove it.
Translation
Translating Biblical Colors
As a general rule of thumb, color is always mistranslated in the Bible. It’s not as much that they didn’t have the same colors that we do, it’s more that our concept of color is muddled.