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The Reality of Pretending, Katherine E. Norman

  When I was small, there were zombies in the basement. The light switch was at the bottom of the stairs which meant that, when coming upstairs, one had to flick the switch before climbing. Without fail, flicking that switch set my heart racing and legs bounding up the stairs as my mind created monstrous …

Color Culture, Matt Ferens

Imagine living in a world where you did not have access to artificial colors – the color wheel, paints, computer screens, and so on. Imagine living, say, in ancient Greece. Would you use such words as “blue” or “green?” As it turns out, the ancient Greeks do not seem to have described colors such as …