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The Strange Scourge of Light Pollution
- Published_at:2014-05-22
- Category:Education
- Channel:SciShow
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- description: Light pollution -- it's not just the bane of light sleepers and frustrated astronomers. It also is tinkering with the biological cycles of all kinds of living things, including us! SciShow takes you behind the glare to understand the effects of artificial light and how we can fight this pollution of the night sky. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/artist/52/SciShow Or help support us by subscribing to our page on Subbable: https://subbable.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Thanks Tank Tumblr: http://thankstank.tumblr.com Sources: http://www.darksky.org/ http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/lp.html http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/light-pollution/klinkenborg-text http://today.uchc.edu/headlines/2007/nov07/graveyard/ late shift/cancer link? http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-resources/the-bortle-dark-sky-scale/ http://physics.fau.edu/observatory/lightpol.html http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-316-18290-4 http://www.wildlandscpr.org/biblio-notes/effects-artificial-lighting-wildlife http://www.npr.org/2013/03/03/173365741/turning-it-down-cities-combat-light-pollution-by-going-dim http://www.yourpublicmedia.org/node/21391 - cancer link? http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/night-lights-worsen-smog/ http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Education/Pages/Factsheet_CircadianRhythms.aspx http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002207/ - breast cancer link http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/20/1557.full - cancer http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236731.php - cancer http://www.darkskiesawareness.org/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627884/ - health effects http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-resources/the-bortle-dark-sky-scale/ http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=194 -astronomy http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/public/lighting/Pollution2.html - astronomy http://web.archive.org/web/20090711211312/http://www.environment.gov.au/settlements/local/publiclighting/index.html http://www.popmatters.com/review/132084-brilliant-the-evolution-of-artificial-light-by-jane-brox/ http://loke.as.arizona.edu/~ckulesa/camp/spectroscopy_intro.html - spectograph http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~annh/PATCH/spectroscopy.html http://www.livescience.com/33156-moths-drawn-artificial-lights.html http://www.wisegeek.org/why-are-insects-attracted-to-light.htm http://archive.audubonmagazine.org/darksideoflight.html http://darksky.org/night-sky-conservation/88-international-dark-sky-communities http://darksky.org/idsp/Guidelines/IDSC%20Guidelines%20Final-May13-BP.pdf - dark sky guidelines http://www.pbs.org/pov/citydark/photo_gallery_background.php?photo=8 http://www.npr.org/2013/03/03/173365741/turning-it-down-cities-combat-light-pollution-by-going-dim http://lumennow.org/lumens-vs-watts/
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