TRIVIAL PURSUITS: What color is your brain?

But, what color is your brain?

The human brain is pink, because of blood vessels.

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Deprived of fresh, oxygenated blood, the brain appears gray.

About 40% of the living brain is gray matter and about 60% is white matter, but these terms aren’t accurate descriptions of color; they designate tissue of two different kinds.

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