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Indian Yellow

In past centuries, artists in Europe had difficulty obtaining a good quality yellow paint. One particular yellow paint yields a good story. 

In the 1600s the Dutch set up a predatory merchant empire in Asia, financed by bringing Asian goods back to Europe and selling them for high prices. The Dutch were constantly on the lookout for new commodities, and found in India a yellow pigment that proved popular with European artists. The pigment had been used for several centuries in the painting of miniatures in India.

The pigment originated in the 1400s in Bengal. Cows were fed a diet exclusively of mango leaves. The ground where the cows urinated was gathered up and processed, resulting in a yellow pigment like the yellow colors of cut mango fruit. 

Some of the yellow pigment in many of Europe’s most glorious paintings originated in cow urine. The practice was ended early in the 1900s because of concerns that mango leaf diet was cruel to the cows. It’s a good story, and one widely told. The trouble is, like so many good stories, it may not be true.

i hope alex turner walks into my house and smashes a tambourine over my head killing me instantly

Indian Yellow

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

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That thing that drives you bonkers

Do you have tinnitus. I'm lucky enough to not be afflicted with it, But my friend Dave has not always been so lucky. He was stuck with it for years. It sounded like a nightmare from the way he described it. Not that he was able to get much sleep. It affected him around the clock. He used to leave the radio on a in between frequencies so the sound that came out was mostly static instead of music. It seemed to make the tinnitus less noticeable and made it easier to get into a light restless sleep for a couple hours at a time.

Then he'd wake up and hear it all day. It negatively affected everything in his life. The doctors couldn't do anything for it. His inner ear looked healthy. There was no medical reason for his symptoms that was visible to the eye. Sound familiar? People with tinnitus are told this every day. He tried everything he could think of to get it under control. He eliminated caffeine and certain foods he thought might be the root cause, took motion sickness medication, wore ear plugs when running the blender or doing anything else that was loud, and a bunch of other things.

Nothing worked..............

Then he found something that did. Research has found that the root cause of tinnitus is in how the brain processes sound. That's why people experience it when there is nothing wrong with the ear itself. It didn't require drugs with side effects or anything invasive like surgery. Dave swears by it.

This is it.

Have a nice day,

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