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Are we better off in the dark?

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Light Polition at Its Sickest

There are a few different kinds of light polution that mess up the darkness for us all. Sky glow is when lights are aiming directly into your eyes, like those really fancy zenon, high intensity discharged lights That tend to blind me when i'm driving. With enough these headlights will disable other drivers. And then youae stuff like clatter andi. This is a kind of light pollution where somebody just got a little bit too happy in putting up street lights. So besides being wasteful and making astronomers mad, it has some serious effects on our health and our circadian rhythms. I have to say, i'm a fan of christmas light, so i was a little conflicted by this

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