Snow isn't actually white
According to David Herrin, an associate professor in the University of Kentucky’s College of Engineering, a few inches of snow can soak up as much as 60 percent of its surrounding sounds. That’s because snowflakes, as they begin to stick to the ground, act similarly to soundproofing materials such as fibers and foams. A flake’s six-sided
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Snowfalls have unique bouquets. Snow isn’t just frozen water; it carries a remnant of the sky. A blue hailstone tastes different from a white one because they’ve taken on air at different altitudes.
Sarah Manguso • Very Cold People
Most of the colours we think of as fluorescent are actually just very high-intensity hues. True fluorescents are so bright not only because the colours are very saturated but also because the chemical structure of the dye or material absorbs the very short-wave light in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum, which humans can't see, and re-emits
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