August 2024: A Right to Night?

Light Pollution News

Host Bill McGeeney is joined by Betty Buckley who made this great film, the Stars at Night and by Leo Smith, who is now starting up a new Coalition to Reduce Light Pollution!
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Bill's Picks:

• 'Security' lights intrude on dark skies, Trisha Hussey, Santa Fe New Mexican.
  
• Feelings of safety for visitors recreating outdoors at night in different artificial lighting conditions, Journal of Environmental Psychology.
  
• Personal light exposure patterns and incidence of type 2 diabetes: analysis of 13 million hours of light sensor data and 670,000 person-years of prospective observation, The Lancet Regional Health Europe.
  
• Bring Back the Light: The mission to save the fireflies in Bali, Obamate Briggs, NewScientist.
  
• Dutch astrocartographer Wil Tirion will be remembered as the creator of the most beautiful star maps and atlases of our time, Govert Shilling, Sky and Telescope.

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Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

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1. August 2024: A Right to Night? (00:00:00)

2. Stars at Night Documentary (00:08:17)

3. The Right to Night (00:15:57)

4. The Future of Street Lighting (00:29:26)

5. Impact of Light Pollution on Health (00:33:29)