Now widely polled as the most popular color in the world, there was a time in which there was no blue -- at least not the way we see blue now. Sure, the sky and water haven’t changed colors, but without the ability to easily create blue dye or pigments, we had no use for the word “blue.” And it turns out that we need words to identify, think, and talk about things for them to exist in our minds. Journey with Kevin as he tells the strange story of how humans discovered the color blue, which existed right in front of them the whole time. The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white. -Wassily Kandinsky Curiosity Box: null Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber Instagram: http://instagram.com/kevlieber Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinlieber Website: http://kevinlieber.com/ Contributing Researcher & Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media http://koala.fm/ VFX by Eric Langlay null Select Music by Jake Chudnow null Special Thanks Paula Lieber https://twitter.com/pixichuu Vsauce2 Links Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/VsauceTwo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VsauceTwo Website: http://www.Vsauce.com/ *** LINKS AND SOURCES *** The Brilliant History of Color in Art by Victoria Finlay https://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-History-Color-Art/dp/1606064290/ Blue: The History Of A Color by Michel Pastoureau https://www.amazon.com/Blue-History-Color-Michel-Pastoureau/dp/0691090505/ Secret Language Of Color by Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Language-Color-Science-History/dp/1579129498/ SPECIAL THANKS Virginia Postrel https://vpostrel.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Substance-Style-Aesthetic-Remaking-Consciousness/dp/0060933852/ Victoria Finlay https://victoriafinlay.com/ Joshua J. Mark http://www.ancient.eu/user/JPryst/ Kidmograph http://www.kidmograph.com/ Outro Song “I Came Back For You” by Trevor Something https://trevorsomething.bandcamp.com/album/soulless-computer-boy-and-the-eternal-render ARTICLES Pigments Through The Ages https://goo.gl/ytfGV3 https://goo.gl/D6nwMs Color In Art https://goo.gl/4Bu7pD Harvard Color Vault https://goo.gl/Q86ixm https://goo.gl/Y43xCb Little Snow White https://goo.gl/Lsm8Xt A Story Of Blue https://goo.gl/4GsVFB The Material History of the Color Blue https://goo.gl/TT5vMS True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd by Natalie Angier https://goo.gl/wiFy7g Why Is The Sky Blue? https://goo.gl/KzoAcb Blue Through The Centuries https://goo.gl/Eh2og1 History Of Blue https://goo.gl/pq5BDC William Gladstone And The Odyssey https://goo.gl/J8dDD5 No One Could See The Color Blue Until Modern Times by Kevin Loria https://goo.gl/tUqph6 Why Is Blue The World’s Favorite Color? https://goo.gl/GkoLyg It’s Not Easy Being Blue (For Plants) by Eric Dillalogue https://goo.gl/h763Hq Color Wavelengths https://goo.gl/3D67Lw The Science Of Blue Flowers https://goo.gl/N74ySm First Blue-Eyed Human https://goo.gl/B5gYsw Humanity’s Favorite Color https://goo.gl/Kzef6s Color In Market Research https://goo.gl/TsaMcs What’s Your Favorite Color? https://goo.gl/eEJW9K Islamic Poetry https://goo.gl/zAEYMm Starry Night, Edvard Munch https://goo.gl/HVsZ24 https://goo.gl/9Tyjpt Newton And The Color Spectrum https://goo.gl/Hg5omA Blue And Green Language Distinctions https://goo.gl/aCk9NQ Rainbows In Art https://goo.gl/AXwkCD True Origin Of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs https://goo.gl/QrYZuB STUDIES Russian Blues Reveal Effects Of Language On Color Discrimination https://goo.gl/CQHWHn Ancient Color Categories https://goo.gl/EQgLE4 Philip Cohen https://goo.gl/f77dzZ Scott Design Inc. Color Poll https://goo.gl/dHGt6p ASSETS Namakura Gatana 1917 restoration by sumerias1 https://goo.gl/uBFKro Egyptian Blue Eye at The J. Paul Getty Museum https://goo.gl/KvC6N1 Indigo by Shisha-Tom https://goo.gl/zmekJX Archaemenid Bowl from David Aaron https://goo.gl/9ZzXVX Lapis Lazuli Eyes photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen https://goo.gl/rTCJj8 Lapis Lazuli Buddha https://goo.gl/uUYpfw https://goo.gl/zopx9g https://goo.gl/yxiYpo CSIC https://goo.gl/TX7P3r Indus Valley Diorama by Biswarup Ganguly https://goo.gl/GzS4U6 Rainbows https://goo.gl/w8LFVk https://goo.gl/mf5Dce Denim by Nikodem Nijaki https://goo.gl/jBqbsH Blue Cat The British Museum https://goo.gl/N8pwiW Woad by H. Zell https://goo.gl/mXuryL Lazurite by Didier Descouens https://goo.gl/RLQd3w Cochineal by Dick Culbert https://goo.gl/ejkzc3 Cochineal by H. Zell https://goo.gl/Whkh8x Portrait of Edvard Munch from National Library of Norway https://goo.gl/DBUoz6 https://goo.gl/GQAJF8 Tekhelet by Mnavon https://goo.gl/eY94C6 Pixabay https://pixabay.com/