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How Light at Night Affects Preschoolers' Sleep Patterns, Part Two (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the watch-the-spinning-light-and-feel-your-eyelids-growing-heavier-every-second dept.

Yesterday, in the intro to video number one of this two part extravaganza we wrote, "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."

Then we said, "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," and we mentioned that this research is (at least in part) crowdfunded, and that the deadline for donating to this project is early next week, so if you feel this project is worth supporting you need to act within the next few days.

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  1. Better Crowdfunded Science Article Rejected by Kunedog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A reposted article deserves a reposted reply.

    Which would you rather read about, Slashdot?

    a) An already-completed crowdfunded study in the hard sciences that resulted in a major discovery about a widely-known and supposedly well-understood chemical reaction, published in Nature Chemistry, or

    b) this unfinished study asking all of us for money, complete with glorious slashdot video, pointlessly spread out over two days?

    repost that sums it up:
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    I know how it sounds to complain that your one submission (out of the many /. 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.

    But /. 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.

    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).

    1. Re:Better Crowdfunded Science Article Rejected by Roblimo · · Score: 2

      Where in this article you love so dearly is a mention of crowdfunding? In the part that's behind a high-cost paywall? If so, tough luck. Slashdot has rarely -- really never -- linked to paywall-restricted articles.

      ++ And FYI, I personally love to interview people like Dr. Mason. I think I'll send him a message through YouTube now, since that seems to be where he's most active online. Thanks for the tip, which you can stop repeating now. I read it the first time, believe it or not.

    2. Re: Better Crowdfunded Science Article Rejected by Roblimo · · Score: 2

      Sorry. We're skipping part three and going directly to four. :)

      Believe it or not, we're getting a whole new audience on http://slashdot.org/videos. Our corporate masters finally stopped with the autoplay stuff and let us have an HTML5 alternative. And beta.... gone gone gone. Things are looking up.

      And yes, we're always looking for interesting people to interview, and mindful that "interesting" to one person is often "boring" to somebody else. You can't please everyone, so you might as well please yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      After a day of the Dead though my new speakers, a Ricky Nelson tune is a good end to my day.

  2. Thank you AdBlock! by thedarb · · Score: 2

    Was able to adblock the video thumb on the front page. Yay! Please don't clutter the front page with video crap.

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  3. Re:How do we sleep up north? by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 2

    When the Sun in low on the horizon the spectrum is shifted towards the red and hence less blue light.