{"id":386,"date":"2006-04-26T19:34:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T00:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=386"},"modified":"2019-12-30T21:28:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T02:28:52","slug":"the-sky-is-more-than-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/the-sky-is-more-than-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"The sky is more than pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue light apparently delivers the wavelengths needed to regulate our circadian rythmns, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2006\/04\/060425015333.htm\">according to research described in <em>Science Daily<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blue sky is a mixture of wavelengths dominated by short wavelength light that gives a blue visual sensation. According to Mark Rea, Ph.D., LRC director, the circadian system is essentially a blue sky detector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blue sky is ideal for stimulating the circadian system because it&#8217;s the right color and intensity, and it&#8217;s on at the correct time for the right duration &#8212; the entire day,&#8221; said Rea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LRC is the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n<p>They performed a study in which they exposed elderly people to blue light, and found that the subjects slept more between midnight and 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not meant to be indoors all day. No wonder so many of us aren&#8217;t getting enough sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder, also, about the effect of wearing sunglasses . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue light apparently delivers the wavelengths needed to regulate our circadian rythmns, according to research described in Science Daily. Blue sky is a mixture of wavelengths dominated by short wavelength light that gives a blue visual sensation. According to Mark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/the-sky-is-more-than-pretty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28],"tags":[995,997,996,998,746],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-science","tag-blue-light","tag-lighting-research-center","tag-mark-rea","tag-rensselaer-polytechnic-institute","tag-sleep"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5413,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/5413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}