Parashat Mishpatim: Divine Blue
© https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-israel-can-trace-its-flags-roots-to-boston-1891/ Dr Alice Skelton is a Lecturer of Developmental Psychology at Sussex University whose PhD culminated as a result of her research on Infant Colour Perception (according to her CV posted at https://aeskelton.wixsite.com/my-site/resume ). Her Paper characterised ‘colour perception and cognition in the first year of life’. In a fascinating piece on the BBC’s website ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/how-toddlers-learn-colours/zmrg8p3 ), she provides a timeline of how babies view colours and punctures the myth that at birth, they are only able to see the world through a monochrome filter. She writes, “If at birth you show a baby a very bright red and white light, they’ll look for longer at the red light than the white. So, we know they can tell those two colours apart.” · After a week, “on average, they can see very intense red or green colours,” · two months – “blui