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Designing for neurodiversity at home and on the move – and dragonfly day

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Comfortable Spaces for Spiky profiles The ‘Spiky’ profile is often used to describe the wide differences in ability associated with neurodivergence compared to the ‘norm’ – What is Neurodiversity? But what does that mean for lighting design, especially given that light and sound consistently come top of neurodivergent individuals’ concerns – Exploring the Design Preferences of Neurodivergent […]

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Light for Long-Covid – and the link between darkness and hearing loss

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Critical contrast  Your body clock evolved to respond to regular patterns of bright light and darkness. If you get enough bright light in the morning, your body clock will stay on track even if you get too much light in the evening, although low light in the evening is best – Blue-Enriched Morning Light as a

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Light-dark adaptation- and the sunshine effect that keeps on giving

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Critical contrast  Your body clock evolved to respond to regular patterns of bright light and darkness. If you get enough bright light in the morning, your body clock will stay on track even if you get too much light in the evening, although low light in the evening is best – Blue-Enriched Morning Light as a

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Count down to exams – and strolling and scrolling – a pain in the neck

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Revision notes All the parents I know are stressing about getting their children through the exam season. While the results are obviously important, making sure they’re healthy and happy is the issue that keeps them up at night. They’re right to worry as the majority of long term mental health conditions begin in early teenage

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The weakest link, making sense of the numbers – and overturning Tesla’s legacy

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The weakest link? The drive for ‘smart’ buildings automated controls risks leaving the humans who use the buildings in the dark and wasting electricity through inappropriate, inefficient or poorly-calibrated automated systems. Time and again, post-occupancy evaluation across a range of settings suggests that occupants want more, not less control over their environment, with lighting frequently

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Reading between the lines: – and worms seeing in full colour

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Recovered from Daylight Savings yet? You can thank the International Meridian Conference held in Washington 140 years ago in 1884 for the introduction of time zones and this government-sponsored global experiment in social jet lag that sparks a passionate debate every year. In this fascinating paper, Professor Timo Partonen reviews the evidence for and against Standard and

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For your eyes only

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You’re probably reading this on a computer, catching up on social media after hours. You’re not alone. Europeans spent two to three hours in front of a screen per day outside of working hours – Time spent watching TV or other media, playing computer games and any similar screen activities (as main or secondary activity). Americans use

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