A blog about science with posts each Wednesday by Priscilla Long, the author of The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life. Her essay “Genome Tome,” which appeared in our Summer 2005 issue, won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.

Blue Notes – Feb. 22, 2012

“Blue,” writes Alexander Theroux in The Primary Colors, “is a mysterious color, hue of illness and nobility, the rarest color in nature. … It is the color of anode plates, royalty at Rome, smoke, distant hills, postmarks, Georgian silver, thin milk, and hardened steel. … ”

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