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Part 3, chapter 3

Ch 4

mid chapter 5

audiobook had to be automatically returned to the library at either 61% or 91%. :(

Giving up at Ch 2, I'm not in a mood for a biography right now

It's been hard having time to listen to an audiobook. It's not for lack of interest, but that I want to be able to listen and learn.

In the chapter on plants about chlorophyll, carotenoids, flavonoids, and insects that can see in ultraviolet to detect invisible to us honey guides in flowers... But the fun thing was learning something completely new, like how there's melanin in plants and how it gives mushrooms a rainbow of color but also it's for helping protect their spores from being damaged by the sun as they spread to propagate itself.

Just finished the chapter on Red, really loved it.

I think it's because I aged out of it, but the 15 year old protagonist's love triangle of romantic interests was hard for me to get into. Kind of similar, but I liked much more, was "The Wren In the Holly Library".

"Insects are nature's little cogs that make the world go round" the audiobook I'm listening to.

I wasn't feeling the first chapter on physics and color theory so I skipped over it to start with Red.

"Pompeian red" was popular in the 18th century. "But red ocher is actually a dehydrated form of yellow ocher, meaning that extreme heat, say, from a volcanic eruption, could drive off the water in yellow ocher and turn it red. In 2011 scientists ... presented a paper suggesting that up to half of the 246 apparently red ocher walls in Pompeii & nearby Herculaneum were actually yellow ocher before the volcano erupted."