Why we walk the red carpet and celebrate a red letter day: 研究員s 明らかにする／漏らす how the colour became so powerful

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Who gets to walk on the red carpet??What makes red-letter days so special? Where is the red line that must not be crossed??

When do we go to red 警報??Why do you see red??

And how can one colour have such diverse meanings in our lives?

Who gets to walk on the red carpet? And how can one colour have such diverse meanings in our lives? An 専門家s from University of?the University of Cambridge 調査するs the significance of red. (Pictuers is?Mel Gibsonand Rosalind Ross at the?Cannes Film Festival this year

These questions are not answered by Newton's famous 実験s with prisms, which led to the colour red 存在 defined as the long end of the 明白な spectrum.?

The wavelength of light is a very abstract idea and 完全に irrelevant to our everyday experience of colour.

It does nothing, for example, to explain why contestants in red sports 道具s are statistically more likely to 勝利，勝つ than those in other colours.

Red is 簡単に sensational and its 支配的な place in today's world of colour 借りがあるs much to events that took place many thousands of years ago.?

One of humankind's earliest observable activities was their decorative use of colour ? in fact, it is one of the things that makes us human.?

And we can 跡をつける 負かす／撃墜する red's 持つ／拘留する over us by tracing the way artists got their colour over time ? from animals, vegetables and minerals.

Most animal reds are hidden within creatures ? like 血 ? and are not on open 陳列する，発揮する.?

The 穴掘り of Neolithic burial 場所／位置s has turned up jars filled with dull-coloured 乾燥した，日照りのd insects, kermes, which have a brilliant hidden red that was used as 織物 dye.?

It was also a Neolithic food colouring and the colour red is still associated with health today.

Another insect, cochineal, was also 収穫d for its red and, when Europeans colonised the New World, cochineal, or '穀物', was one of their most 心にいだくd prizes.?

Thousands of トンs of insects were shipped across the 大西洋, in a 貿易（する） second only to silver.?

Cochineal (pictured) was also used as a food colouring and, after 存在 unfashionable for some １０年間s, it is now coming 支援する thanks to the unfortunate 味方する-影響s of 人工的な food-colourings

CAN RED BOOST A TEAM'S PERFORMANCE??

専門家s believe that red could make individuals and teams feel more 確信して 同様に as 存在 perceived by others as more 積極的な and 支配的な.

The findings will give fans of Manchester 部隊d, Liverpool and 兵器庫, an explanation for their run of success.?

部隊d and Liverpool have won a 記録，記録的な／記録する 18 league 肩書を与えるs, while 兵器庫 have had an 連続する run in the 最高の，を越す flight for longer than any other team.?

England's 勝利を得た World Cup team in 1966, led by Bobby Moore (pictured) wore red - but have since switched to white.?

Red's pre-eminence 現れるd from a 熟考する／考慮する by German sports psychologists at the University of Munster and 報告（する）／憶測d in New Scientist magazine.?

Haematite or '血-石／投石する', ?was the 初めの European 'war paint' after 古代の Greeks smeared their 団体／死体s in haematite before going into 戦う／戦い as it was supposed to 信頼できる the flow of 血. Red is still used by many sports teams, as they are also going into 戦う／戦い

They showed ビデオ clips of taekwondo 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合s to 42 experienced 審判（をする）s.?

One combatant wore blue, the other red.?

They then showed them the same clips but digitally manipulated the 着せる／賦与するing to 交換（する） the colours.?

The 闘士，戦闘機s wearing red were given an 普通の／平均（する） of 13 per cent more points than when they were blue.?

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Cochineal was also used as a food colouring and, after 存在 unfashionable for some １０年間s, it is now coming 支援する thanks to the unfortunate 味方する-影響s of 人工的な food-colourings.

The New World also 供給するd a source of vegetable reds.?

Some redwood trees were 収穫d for their red dye and one of these was brazilwood.?

Not surprisingly, many brazilwood trees （機の）カム from Brazil in the 16th and 17th centuries but, in the 13th century, Europe 輸入するd most of its brazilwood from South-East Asia.?

The earliest 生き残るing 証拠 of reds used for decorative 影響 are mineral reds. Red 激しく揺するs were collected tens of thousands of years ago. Pictured is Pikes 頂点（に達する）, a mountain of red 激しく揺するs in Colorado Springs, Colorado?

Brazil was in fact 指名するd after its red dye, not the other way 一連の会議、交渉／完成する, just as 隣人ing Argentina was 指名するd after its silver.

In Europe, the indigenous red vegetable dye was madder, which was an exceedingly 価値のある cash 刈る until the 中央の-19th century.?

The introduction of a synthetic 同等（の）, alizarin, 完全に decimated the entire 農業の 部門 in about a １０年間, but luckily, madder-growers turned to grape-growing and a new 産業 was born.

The earliest 生き残るing 証拠 of reds used for decorative 影響 are mineral reds.?

Red 激しく揺するs were collected tens of thousands of years ago and they evidently had ritual significance as they featured in funerary practices and could be used in burials hundreds of kilometres from their 地質学の source.?

A hint about red's significance is 設立する in the 指名する of the most ありふれた red mineral, haematite or '血-石／投石する'.?

This was the 初めの European 'war paint' after 古代の Greeks smeared their 団体／死体s in haematite before going into 戦う／戦い as it was supposed to 信頼できる the flow of 血.?

This is ironic, since haematite was also a source of アイロンをかける, the metal that 原因（となる）d most 流血／虐殺.

But not all the historic reds were natural.?

Some were synthetic.?

Yellow earths could be turned red by putting them in 解雇する／砲火／射撃, and many of the 先史の reds were 現実に 製造（する）d from yellow earths.?

(Today, the same 関係 is 設立する in the artists' pigment 'raw sienna', a yellow earth, and 'burnt sienna' a red.)?

The purposeful 変形 of yellow earth into reds pre-時代遅れの the 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing of pottery.

アイロンをかける smelting too, probably （機の）カム from 実験s in the ritual 準備 of synthetic pigments and cosmetics, so the metal could 井戸／弁護士席 be a by-製品 of magical pr actices in turning 石／投石する red.?

Synthetic red things have 保持するd their 魔法, after all, thanks to Harry Potter, we now all know that the Philosophers' 石／投石する (pictured) is red

And synthetic red things have 保持するd their 魔法, after all, thanks to Harry Potter, we now all know that the Philosophers' 石／投石する is red.

A 'red thread' 新たな展開s through the historic use of colour from animals, vegetables, minerals and synthetics. That thread associates the colour with 変形, dynamism and, above all, life.?

It is the colour most closely associated with 力／強力にする and the dangers associated with it ? what 作品 for you and what can work against you.?

All things change, but you hope they'll go your way ? something red 明確に signifies and why red is 'ingrained' (a word that comes from cochineal's dyeing 力／強力にする) in many cultures as the colour of luck.

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