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Was very surprised by how much light coming in from the city was keeping me awake.
Taking melatonin worked for a while but I feel like it really messes with you.
Surely walking around outside exposes you to plenty of blue light. I think the issue is when people stay up late working at the computer.
Modern street lights seem worse than most people think in this case.
If you are a human and not a fly here is what concerns you "... humans are exposed to more blue-enriched LED illumination for most of the day, or even at night due to shift work and light pollution in large cities.6 However, long-term consequences of increased daily blue-light exposure across the human lifespan are not known." saved you a clickbait.
In the late afternoon, all the blue light get caught and even some of the red, since the sun is now not just an atmosphere-length but an atmosphere length plus a radius of the earth length from the observer and hence has more distance to get scattered. This would mean we get orange-ish light.
Have biologists pointed this out?
So to bring this a little bit back to biology (and away from the fact that the article says little about humans) I would conjecture that the issue with blue light may stem from Rayleigh scattering [1] of sunlight and the subsequent phenomenon whereby the light that reaches us has a lot of the blue component removed. In the late afternoon, all the blue light get caught and even some of the red, since the sun is now no…
I made a (what most people would consider terrible) vim color scheme that has no blue light in it (it's like an old amber terminal). Initially I thought I would hate it and switch back in a couple days/weeks, but I actually find it very nice, and switching to anything w/ blue light or a "normal color scheme" with blues and greens now weirdly feels like an assault. Feel free to give it a whirl: https://github.com/camg…
So to bring this a little bit back to biology (and away from the fact that the article says little about humans) I would conjecture that the issue with blue light may stem from Rayleigh scattering [1] of sunlight and the subsequent phenomenon whereby the light that reaches us has a lot of the blue component removed. In the late afternoon, all the blue light get caught and even some of the red, since the sun is now no…
I always wondered: is there anyway to distinguish an evening from a morning through the sort of light we see. So Image you see random pictures and don’t know if it’s dawn or dusk. Can you see the difference?
In the morning, if there is less dust, then there would be different Raleigh scattering.
So to bring this a little bit back to biology (and away from the fact that the article says little about humans) I would conjecture that the issue with blue light may stem from Rayleigh scattering [1] of sunlight and the subsequent phenomenon whereby the light that reaches us has a lot of the blue component removed. In the late afternoon, all the blue light get caught and even some of the red, since the sun is now no…
I always wondered: is there anyway to distinguish an evening from a morning through the sort of light we see. So Image you see random pictures and don’t know if it’s dawn or dusk. Can you see the difference?
I sincerely thought I could tell mornings from evenings by light alone, until I congratulated a friend on a great capture of evening light and he told me the shot was taken in the morning. Did some research after that.
I made a (what most people would consider terrible) vim color scheme that has no blue light in it (it's like an old amber terminal). Initially I thought I would hate it and switch back in a couple days/weeks, but I actually find it very nice, and switching to anything w/ blue light or a "normal color scheme" with blues and greens now weirdly feels like an assault. Feel free to give it a whirl: https://github.com/camg…
If you're on a Mac could you just use Flux or Night Shift to achieve the same result of removing all blue light from your display?
I made a (what most people would consider terrible) vim color scheme that has no blue light in it (it's like an old amber terminal). Initially I thought I would hate it and switch back in a couple days/weeks, but I actually find it very nice, and switching to anything w/ blue light or a "normal color scheme" with blues and greens now weirdly feels like an assault. Feel free to give it a whirl: https://github.com/camg…
Somewhat similar to my terminal text color code. Mine is FCAF3E on 150C0C background, which I find a bit more neutral and gentle to the eyes. The secret is to avoid pure or saturated colors which I found sometimes can be a punch in the eye, so I usually start with a color then lower its intensity and add a bit of the others to make it less hard to look at.