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Failure: The Blog 
May 2018
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
- Superman Couldn't Fly
- This School Shares Failures
- Jim Croce's Parents Hoped He Would Fail
- McDonald's Turns A Cheater Into A Winner
- Snake Eyes Was Made To Save Money
February 2018
- A Stolen Album Created Success
- The 1679 Habeas Corpus Act Passed Due To A Joke
- Changing The Print On A Box Saved Money
- George Washington Survived His Miserable Mother
- How Warehouse Stores Began
January 2018
- Reddit User Found Success Through Failure
- Remembering Famous Failures
- Mistake Or Genius Marketing?
- Waste From Our Eyes Lets Us See
- The Slinky Was Accidentally Created
December 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!
