From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.

Answering those questions that make you go, um. Moment of Mm comes to you from a mum.

Mm. Mm.

M. comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Anna G.

Art was always one of my favorite subjects in school.

When I was in second grade, we had an art teacher, Mrs Ames,

that taught us about primary colors

with a little song that I still remember.

It went like this,

Red Yellow Blue, Red Yellow Blue. And went like this, red yellow blue, red yellow blue, I see you, red yellow blue, you are the primary colors,

you make all the other colors, I wish I were a color just like red yellow blue

Yep, that song is still bopping around my brain 30 years down the road

But looking back on the lyrics, I have some questions.

First of all, do I wish I were a color?

Which one?

Green, maybe.

Yeah, yeah, a nice mossy green.

Okay, that answers that one.

But you know what else I learned in school?

I learned that sunlight is made up of all the colors of the rainbow.

If you let sunlight shine through a special glass shape called a prism, it splits the light into those

different colors and you see a little rainbow. So if sunlight is made of all the colors, who decided that red, yellow, and blue were the primary ones?

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