Grass... money... Ninja Turtles... some of the best things in the world are all the same color: green! This week, we're taking a deeper look at this most verdant of colors.
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[Definition]
[Truth or Fail]
[Trivia Question]
Green spaces reduce systolic blood pressure
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721075914?via%3Dihub
[Fact Off]
Green glacier mystery
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/859296
Emerald ash borer pest control by biomimicry and electrocution
https://ag.umass.edu/landscape/fact-sheets/emerald-ash-borer
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01496-8
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/femme-fatale-emerald-ash-borer-decoy-lures-kills-males/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1412810111
[Ask the Science Couch]
U.S. green paper money
https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/02/the-canadian-roots-of-the-greenback/
https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/artifact/hr-240-legal-tender-act-february-25-1862
https://www.moneyfactory.gov/resources/faqs.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/important-improvement-in-bank-note/
https://cite.case.law/barb/56/84/
https://cite.case.law/barb/56/96/
[Butt One More Thing]
Orb weaver butts
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4263&context=etd