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Failure: The Blog 
August 2017
July 2017
- Dying Stars Give Us Paint
- Worcestershire Sauce Wasn't A Hit At First
- Why Some Video Games Fail
- We Have The Internet Because of Fear of Failure
- The Mistake That Created The Whopper Jr.
June 2017
- Ben Schwartz Took Risks
- Robert Sternberg Failed His Psychology Class
- Sony Began With A Rice Cooker That Burned Rice
- Jay Coughlan Success Started With Prison
- Tai Lopez's Rags To Riches Story
May 2017
- Ways To Turn Those Failures Around
- Aaron Swenson Believes In Failure
- Scientific Discovery Requires Failure
- Millennials Need To Learn To Fail
- Gareth Edwards Feared Failure
April 2017
- Chocolate Shortage in WW2 Created Success
- Manufacturers Helped During The Great Depression
- General Electric's Joke Turned Into Success
- Swanson's Leftover Turkey Issue Brought Success
- Blister Packs Are Annoying. Also, They Save Lives.
March 2017
Dying Stars Give Us Paint
A dying star sounds terribly morbid, doesn’t it? A light winked out. Yet we paint our barns red because of the physics of star death!
Photo © Flickr User Christian Collins
Do you know how we get the color red? Yonatan Zuger from Google explained it to Smithsonian in a recent article:
Red ochre—Fe2O3—is a simple compound of iron and oxygen that absorbs yellow, green and blue light and appears red. It’s what makes red paint red. It’s really cheap because it’s really plentiful. And it’s really plentiful because of nuclear fusion in dying stars.”
As soon as a dying star hits 56 nucleon, it falls apart, which gives us our source of iron among many other things. But iron is important because it’s actually what makes red paint. Every barn is painted with the failure of a star!
