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How Light at Night Affects Preschoolers' Sleep Patterns (Video)
The effects of light and dark on adults' Circadian rythym has been studied over and over, but there hasn't been much research done on how light at night affects young children's sleep patterns. This is the topic of Lameese Akacem's doctoral dissertation, and is a study being carried out under the aegis of the Sleep and Development Laboratory at the University of Colorado, Boulder, under the direction of Assistant Professor Monique K. LeBourgeois. Aside from the inherent value of this research, which may help parents decide whether (and how much) they are messing up their children's sleep patterns by letting them view screens such as TVs, tablets or smart phones near bedtime, its funding is unique; the money for this study is coming, at least in part, from crowdfunding. The crowdfunding itself is an experiment. This study is one of a small, select group of projects the University of Colorado at Boulder has in its pilot crowdfunding program. Its crowdfunding time window closes next week, so if you want to help sponsor this experiment, and help learn how different kinds of light can affect how (and how well) small children sleep, you need to act within the next six days. (This is a two-part video. Part one runs today. Part two will run tomorrow.)
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There, now you don't need that grant.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
As soon as I saw the pictures I assumed that this thread would include the usual cadre of people who could not see past the gender of the principles. I do not know why I even bothered to click through - the first two posts were pretty much what I expected. How about we admire competent people and let their work speak.
Apparently one of the long-term effects is to turn males into mysognistic Aspies
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Ah, but think of all the grants you *could* get.
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Some day we may have the technology to be able to post both parts at the same time.
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As soon as I saw the pictures I assumed that this thread would include the usual cadre of people who could not see past the gender of the principles.
Man, I feel totally lost. I couldn't begin to tell you the gender of the principles, let alone see past it.
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Because it doesn't just affect preschoolers, and although you can't tell from TFA, the wider problem is not just about BRIGHT light at night.
I wrote up a summary for a nutrition forum. It's a subscription site, but as far as I know the whole thing is freely visible:
Attention Shoppers: Blue Light Special
https://www.cureality.com/forum/topics.aspx?id=17654
If you really care about health in a broken healthcare system, diet isn't the only thing that needs to get a lot more paleo.
My right hand has been paying back dividends without any noticeable psychological damage.
This comment shouldn't have taken three hours to write, but I've been spending most of my time Googling images entirely unrelated to this.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Such a wasted opportunity.
Should have been:
"Know what I like even more than video articles?" ... " :)
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I don't mind seeing this here, although I was a little confused about why it is something that the editors thought that most of the audience was interested in on Slashdot.
I do realize that articles tend to run far afield on occasion, especially on politics, but there does seem to be a certain sort of article that tends to draw interest here, let alone two parter video article.
It is sort of like the History channel playing something that isn't Hitler or Aliens. Or Hitler being an alien. Or Nostradamus... predicting Hitler AND aliens.
A little bourbon will counteract the light quite nicely! And a little coffee in the morning will counteract the bourbon! Problem solved!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
its funding is unique; the money for this study is coming, at least in part, from crowdfunding.
This isn't unique. In fact, three times I've submitted news of a crowdfunded, already completed, ground-breaking scientific discovery published in Nature Chemistry, and /. couldn't be bothered to run it. But somehow, this study gets the "deluxe" Slashdot video treament, plus a pointless second article, plus a call to action to "pitch in."
/. rather read about a major discovery in the hard sciences or about this unfinished (unstarted?) study asking all of us for money?
/. receives) didn't get accepted, but I've tried submitting this recent scientific discovery (published in Nature Chemistry) a few times. IMO it's perfect material for Slashdot: an interesting new hypothesis (about a supposedly "well-understood" reaction) put to the test via regularly evolving experiments and apparatuses. And it was even largely funded through Youtube viewers (who the lead scientist thanks in the paper) and documented with (at least one) well-done video.
/. never ran it. I can't help but think that part of the problem is that the scientist is Dr. Phil Mason, aka thunderf00t, who is known for his vids that expose Atheism+ and anti-Gamergate types as fools. Think about the lousy submissions that do often make it on the front page, especially those that push an agenda.
So, would
repost that sums it up (don't feel like typing it all again):
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I know how it sounds to complain that your one submission (out of the many
But
This is why things like Gamergate (and Slashdot's atrocious coverage of it) matter, even if you yourself don't personally care about videogames; it is a fight against neo-puritans who want to filter ALL types of content (not just games, comics, music, movies, etc) you're allowed to see, and refuse to acknowledge the work of those who don't buy into the "narrative."
P.S. Clearly I'm biased, so if any of you think that my article submission is unworthy for some other reason, let me know (seriously).
Thank you for proving my point. How many night lights did you have as a child?
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re: Considering that the paleo diet is a bunch of bull, ...
Well, there is no single unambiguous paleo diet, and arguing about any which tend toward my characterization of "more paleo" is getting off-topic for this thread.
re: I'm not sure I should believe the rest of that link.
It wasn't written to enroll believers. It was written to provide keywords for searches, and motivation, so people could make up their own minds.
re: Dealing with lighting issues at night is important, ...
Just how important is not yet fully in focus, and while we're pondering, domestic night light is getting bluer, display gamuts are widening, and people are spending increasing amounts of time staring at color displays in bed.
re: ... but it's not going to cut the cancer rate in half.
I didn't say it would (although one blue light alarmist might so claim). I can confidently predict that controlling blue light at night will do very little for cancer in people who stay on consensus diets, which are full-time glycemic. Keywords to search on: Warburg, Seyfried, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease (don't expect to encounter any blue light connections on that topic, yet).
News for Nerds. Apparently nerds these days are interested in anything involving crowdfunding, bitcoin, youtube, plane crashes, police brutality, global warming, immunization and natural disasters.
Don't crowdfund research. It's bad for publicly funded research. As soon as the government, the universities and the grant organizations find out that crowdfunding works, they'll cut budgets or make their funding dependent on privately acquired money. That means only public darlings will get funded, or projects with corporate backing, and that the research results can end up in a drawer if there are larger backers that have made such provisions. In short, by funding research, you're killing it. Instead, write your congressman or member of parliament.
Quit crying and screaming! No, there are no monsters, and no you can't have a nite-light! That's bad for you. I read it online a week ago. Just sit there and snivel in the darkness!
Scientists ... traumatizing children since the Renaissance.
My daughter is only eight months old, but she generally wakes up between 5:30 and 6:30 on her own. Being eight months old, that means that yes, her bedtime is between 6:30 and 7:30 at night. Not sure why a bedtime for children while the sun is up should be an issue. Thick curtains help a lot, for one.
On the other side, she also is already fascinated by our phones and other pieces of technology, including ones that don't seem like they should be terribly interesting, like television remotes and computer cables. Perhaps some of it is the allure of things that we try to keep her from grabbing and stuffing in her mouth.
Research protocols and IRB rules are built to allow research on children, through minor assent and parental permission. Happens all the time. In this case, for most circadian studies, it would mean using / not using the same screen-based devices that the children already use and then checking melatonin in saliva which is minimally invasive and poses no significant risk. "Lab rat" is hardly an accurate image. Your charge of only poor people cooperating in research when paid is also inaccurate. How do I know this? From serving for a number of years as an educator on a major research hospital's IRB panel, where we approved research involving children when properly designed, and proposed modifications when not. Also from conducting circadian rhythm research on children beginning 30+ years ago, when IRBs were just being developed. We erred on the side of safety at any decision point, and in one early study of 1,300 students (in a balance of urban, suburban and rural towns) had over 90% consent students overall.
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It's biomedical research, which is interesting to at least some Slashdot readers. The fact that Timothy dotes on his toddler-age niece is surely irrelevant.
So something like this is interesting to a subset of Slashdot users, including Timothy Lord (and me, to a lesser extent since I have a toddler-age granddaughter). Not everything on Slashdot is interesting to every user. This one should be interesting to parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and anyone else who may be attached to a trainee human in the future. Which, silly stereotypes aside, describes the vast majority of Slashdot. users.
I have no problem with turning my kid into a lab rat
Seeing two researchers explaining an experiment, and the first thing you care to say about it is some variation of "nice tits" suggests a misogynist.
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