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]

https://www.wired.com/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-ii/  

[Truth or Fail]

[Trivia Question]

Green spaces reduce systolic blood pressure

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721075914?via%3Dihub

https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/about.htm#:~:text=The%20second%20number%2C%20called%20diastolic,%E2%80%9C120%2F80%20mmHg.%E2%80%9D

[Fact Off]

Green glacier mystery

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/icebergs-can-be-emerald-green-now-we-know-why?loggedin=true

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.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/resources/pests-diseases/hungry-pests/the-threat/emerald-ash-borer/emerald-ash-borer-beetle

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://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spider_-_Eriophora_nephiloides,_Caves_Branch_Jungle_Lodge,_Belmopan,_Belize.jpg

https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4263&context=etd