Why light pollution may be linked to greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease
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Light pollution is a growing issue. Over the past 25 years, artificial lighting has surged by 49 per cent worldwide. For perspective, the brightness of the
  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    it seems goofy to me that they didn’t take into account indoor light, as if your synapses differentiate between photons hitting your retinas and skin outside vs inside

    also is there even such a thing as a place that has light pollution but not enough air pollution for that to be a bigger factor?

    can someone make this whole thing not seem dumb to me?

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      10 hours ago

      This was my thought. Most light pollution is in cities where you also have all sorts of other pollution. Reminds me just yesterday of an ingnoble study that said placebos with side effects work better than not but they were testing for pain tolerance and they produced the “side effect” with capsacin which is known to reduce pain.