Sending all of you and those you care for the gifts of light and love, peace and joy for the season – and every day. Lunatics and coral reefs Christmas day was the last full moon of the year, known as the Cold Moon. Although moonlight is dim, around 6 lux, the full moon […]
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Seasonal Cheer or Sensory Overload? The Festive Season is packed with crowded streets, bright lights and unpredictable surprises in unfamiliar places, all things that send people with sensory processing disorders into a spin. Current estimates suggest that one in six of us are ‘on the spectrum’ – Visual Sensory Experiences From the Viewpoint of Autistic Adults, and
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It’s a wrap! Wondering whether to bother wrapping up those gifts – after all they know what you’ve bought them already, good paper is expensive and it’s bad for the environment too. Turns out that the same gift when wrapped even in brown paper, is perceived as more valuable than one delivered in a transparent
Bling or brown paper? – and dodging National Divorce Day! Read More »
My intrepid Mum tripped and fell in the early hours of Saturday morning. Thankfully just badly bruised ribs this time. She, like most of us as we get older heads to the bathroom several times in the night, a perilous journey is linked to up to 63% of falls in older adults, compared to just
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Solar or social time? As we start to feel the winter chill and it gets dark so early here in the Northern Hemisphere that most of us go to work before the sun comes up and it’s dark before we log off for the day. So shouldn’t we all just curl up and go to
Seasonal shifts, efficiency v. effectiveness – and a book! Read More »
On the last leg of my European Tour in Sweden, I was so impressed by the searching questions from the audience. I didn’t know the answers and wondered if these might be questions you have pondered too. So here are three for the geeks this week 😉 When you say melanopsin is sensitive to light,
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Vive la difference! Nobody is average. As we get better at measuring response to light, we are starting to see just how different we all are. So this week, I’ve put together some papers you might enjoy. Eyes change with age Babies’ eyes are a ‘work in progress.’ • They grow by over 65% before
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The beautiful game A privilege to be invited by Glamox to speak at the football museum in Dortmund alongside the wonderful Ralf Heinen and Torsten Braun. This shiny shrine to soccer covered every angle – there was even a practice net for penalty shootouts on the ground floor. And yet, there was one gaping hole in the
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Unravelling the rainbow Your brain can’t tell which wavelengths are coming out of a light source, just as you can’t always tell what ingredients went into a meal. But fascinating new research shows how specific components of our diet of light drive critical signalling pathways in real time. This has clear implications for the next
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The same questions from Kettering to Krakow – It’s a privilege to be invited to bang the drum for better lighting all over the world. The same questions come up every time… What is ‘Human-centric’ lighting anyway? (Isn’t it another name for tunable white?) Do you need it for offices and schools where people go
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