While ice reflects around 80 percent of the sun's heat, having a cooling effect, blue sea water can absorb up to 95 percent of solar radiation, warming up the sea and accelerating the melting process further.

CNN: Arctic melt worse than predictions

I'm rested and relaxed after two days at this wellness-lite resort in the desert two hours east of San Diego--an effect of the vast saturated-blue sky, the 650, 000 acres of nature preserve all around, that cushy bed in my guest room, and, best of all, the laid-back approach to the mindfulness mission.

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Researchers have spotted a never-before-seen chemical effect in Vincent Van Gogh's Flowers In A Blue Vase that is dulling the work's vibrant yellows.

BBC: Van Gogh's Flowers In A Blue Vase damage seen in X-rays

Another paper, co-authored by Andreas Kuhn of the University of Zurich, investigates the effect of a change in Austrian employment-insurance rules that allowed blue-collar workers earlier retirement in some regions than others.

ECONOMIST: How older workers can find happiness

David Autor, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), points out that the main effect of automation in the computer era is not that it destroys blue-collar jobs but that it destroys any job that can be reduced to a routine.

ECONOMIST: A university degree no longer confers financial security

The red, green and blue components of the signal are fed into three separate high-definition cathode-ray tubes (in effect, fancy black-and-white televisions).

ECONOMIST: Curtains for celluloid