Colour and Phone Addiction

Should All Teens Switch to Black and White Screens?

An Investigation into the Contribution of Colour and Phone Addiction

 

Three students at Eureka Secondary School in Ireland aimed to find a correlation between colour usage in social media and mobile phone addiction in youth.

Their research is amazing and shows how students can meet the highest standards of what a research project can encompass.

 Download this PDF: colour_phone_addiction_youth.pdf

 

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Color Science Projects - Rainbow

 

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Should All Teens Switch to Black and White Screens? 
An Investigation into the Contribution of Colour and Phone Addiction in Youth

Note: This is the most inspiring and thoroughly documented research that we've ever received from students. A+


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Does color affect taste?

Does color affect taste?
This question pertains to the condition known as synaesthesia. For example, a color might have a "taste" associated with it.

The best answer is at Color Matters: How Color Affects Taste and Smell

A student's science project on this topic: How color affects taste
 

Color and Taste - Some Answers from Others

Miss Jackson: Last year a class took three bottles of identical lemon lime soda. Into one they put several drops of blue food coloring. Into another they put an identical amount of red food coloring. Into the third they put an identical amount of green food color.They let 100 students try the three sodas and asked which they liked the best. The majority said they liked the blue soda the best because they liked the blue berry flavor the best! The zinger, remember, is that they all were lemon-lime in flavor.

Kim: My 12 year old son did the same science project with vanilla pudding and most people chose the "chocolate" pudding which in reality was vanilla with food coloring....soooo color does affect the senses.

lmn: I tested 10 people: i gave em each a blue and an original cookie and had them taste each of the colors, they all said that the original one tasted better even though they were all the same thing.

CC: My daughter, age 9, did the same basic experiment. However, we used sugar dough cookie mix and mixed 7 different colors for 10 classmates to try. She thought they would all go for the black cookie, thinking that they would think it was chocolate. But the colors blue, green and red were the cookies of choice.

Chris Willard.: Take some common foods and shine different colored lights on them and ask people what they find appetizing when the colors of say mashed potatos turn green or blue.

JJStaple.: Good question. It is said "hunger is the best appetizer" so I would imagine that our visual purple photodetectors are the complement and match filter for green such as in salads. Discoloration of food probably was primitive threat warning system, like red sunrise for sailors, although some green apples are ripe and others are not and might evoke memory of a belly ache. Story goes that before early demonstration of fruit bowl on new color TV, engineers at RCA Sarnoff Labs switched the RGB cables. A non-yellow banana would not be appetizing and a hot dog may look more appetizing with yellow or brown mustard--depending on one's taste. De gustibus non est dispudandum.


Links to More Science Projects

Here's a compilation of all the pages with  information from students who are conducting scientific color experiments.

Color and Heat Absorption

Color and Water Evaporation

Plant Growth & Light Color

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Plant Growth & Light Color

Is plant growth affected by the color of light?

 

the color of light and plants

Question: I need help with an experiment I'm doing. I read some place that plants need more red artificial light because it is the color of heat. It also said that artificial blue light was a cool color.


Plant Growth and Light Color- Some Answers from Others

Jenni (a former student of SAS, a China located international school):
The color of light does affect plant growth. See, sunlight contains many colors of the visible specturm, and the invisible. Plants can be affected. Cellophane tents don't work because they don't supply the correct amount and cellophane affects opaqueness of the light... so use colored light bulbs. Plants (expecially flowering and house) tend to like violet, blue and red lights... not so much as some yellows, oranges and greens. Maybe this should help... Good LUCK!!!! -Jenni,
Here are a few sites to help, as well:
Does Colored Light Affect Seed Growth
How Light Affects Plant Growth
 

Mac:
John Ott worked a great deal with plants and how light and color affects them. I suggest you read some of his work. You can find references to John Ott on the web. I suspect it's not the color 'temperatures' you'll find to be central, but the frequencies of light that come in contact with the plants. You can do literature searches on such topics as color, temperature, and plants. But conducting an experiment gives you direct experience and first hand observations. That's what scientists like! :-) Conduct your own experiment - and maybe you'll find something never before discovered.

The 'color' of light (the emission amplitude and spectral distribution) can significantly affect plant growth. Keep in mind, it's not only the visible light, but the UV and infra-red areas in the spectrum - light that is not visible to the human eye. There are 'full spectrum' light bulbs that have been available (at least in the past) for people who wish to provide 'sun equivalent' lighting forplants [and people too] - both plants and people probably grow better :) under this type of balanced light. As an aside, the typical cool white fluorescent lamp emits strongly in the blue and green emission bands (try peeking at one with a prism or spectra scope.) Studies have suggested that fluorescent and other unbalanced bulbs do less than great things of people and plants are exposed to them chronically (prolonged exposure).....including 1. increased incidence of dental caries (cavities), 2. hyperactivity and depression in adults...on and on... To answer your question though, yes, light affects plants. It can inhibit growth, reproduction, and plant health.. ...or help it if the light is right. Regards, Mac

AMC:
Find a few books written by John Ott. He did some plant and colored light stuff - kinda like you are! :) Cool eh? Then - don't believe everything you read. Do the project yourself! Get some plants, buy some little lights, and away you go. (Psst - go ahead and do the Red, Blue, White, and Yellow - but add a few more lights if you can. A so-called Gro-Light that has some UV in it - and perhaps a standard fluorescent bulb.)


Links to More Science Projects

Here's a compilation of all the pages with  information from students who are conducting scientific color experiments.

Color and Heat Absorption

Does Color Affect Taste?

Color and Water Evaporation


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Color & Water Evaporation


How does the color of water affect its evaporation rate?

Question
My experiment consists of 3 bottles of water. I added blue food coloring to one bottle, and red food coloring to another bottle, and the last bottle of water i added nothing. I've noticed the bottle of water I added nothing to, is evaporating faster than the blue and red water. Why is this?
 

Color and Water Evaporation - Information from others

LKPete: The short answer is that the "color" of water has no effect on evaporation. But this is because water, by itself, has no color, instead only reflecting the sky (the ocean on a cloudy day will be as gray as the clouds). You might make a case for any substance within the water that gives it color (algea, chemicals, etc.) that might change the water's viscosity, and, therefore, the rate at which it evaporates. Good Luck!


Carlin Jamieson-Dolan: Different coloured objects absorb different amounts of heat. A black car for instance will get significantly hotter on the inside than a white car. Another reason the uncoloured water may be evaporating faster is because the food colouring chemical itself takes longer to evaporate. The colour of the dye may in fact have nothing to do with it.


Jessica:  Your basic problem is whether the increased life of your roses when in coloured vases is due to temperature changes, or changes in bacterial growth. To see if it's the temperature, use all clear vases, but heat some of them a few degrees warmer to simulate the heat effect of the coloured glass. If the roses in the heated vases last longer or shorter, then the heat has an effect on either the rose stems or the bacteria. If not, it doesn't.

Then, you just need to see whether rose life is affected by vase colour, apart from the colour's effect on temperature, but I don't know how you would do that. You would have to make both both your coloured and clear vases maintain the same temperature, and if the rose life still varied between them, you could probably assume that the change was due to different frequencies of light entering the vases and affecting either the rose stems or the bacteria.

For your experiments, I suggest using distilled water to eliminate the possibility that heat or light frequency is affecting some component of your tap water.Good luck with your experiments.
p.s. I'm going to have to get some "tincture of iodine"!


Links to More Science Projects

Here's a compilation of all the pages with  information from students who are conducting scientific color experiments.

Color and Heat Absorption

Plant Growth and Light Color

Does color affect taste?

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