Colour Intelligence

Museum Of Colour

Stephanie Krzywonos | Emergence | 28th August 2025

Vivid history of pigments — ochre, bone black, lapis lazuli and more. Tyrian purple, the rarest, most expensive pigment in human history, was harvested from a mollusk off the coast of Tyre in Lebanon. One ounce required the mucus of 250,000 murex sea snails. Its expense made purple the colour of royalty, until a young British chemist accidentally created mauve in 1856, democratising purple for the masses (6,100 words)

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A Brief History Of Intelligence

Sarabet Chang Yuye | 31st August 2025

Book review synthesising breakthroughs in neuroscience and AI research, by an author whose reading pleasure is augmented by her five-month-old baby “coming along as a mind”. Questions explored include: why does a nematode need a brain, but not a coral? What rules do nematodes and roombas follow while steering? What do fish brains and the first good backgammon-playing AI have in common? (7,000 words)