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  "textContent": "In 1919, a University of Chicago art student named Faber Birren dropped out after two years because no program existed for what he wanted to study: the effect color had on a person's emotional state. He interviewed physicists and psychologists, ran his own experiments — at one point slathering his bedroom in red vermillion to see if living inside it would drive him insane — and by 1933 had talked his way into corporate offices as a self-appointed color consultant. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Faber Birren painted his bedroom red to see if it would drive him mad, then designed the colors of the nuclear age appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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