Bad decisions have turned efficient technology into a driver of light pollution. There is a better way
Light Pollution Map
Interactive world light pollution map. The map uses NASA Black marble VIIRS, Sky brightness, Aurora prediction, observatories, clouds and SQM/SQC overlay contributed by users.
Ten Brighter Ideas? An Explorable Explanation
As with many areas of public interest, the common wisdom surrounding energy conservation consists of myths and legends, rules of thumb and superstitions. We're given guidelines as soundbites, catchy but insubstantial. We trust them blindly, not knowing whether our actions make any significant impact.
Appropriate Measures — Real Life
Changing the tech we use is not enough to mitigate the environmental and social harm of mass technology
You have been mislead about lightbulbs (Maurycy's blog)
This is wrong, but it's the type of wrong that cites its sources and hides in the part you'd never think to fact check:
The sky is psychedelic: why so many people see strange lights in the sky
Your brain evolved to see deep meaning in the sky. And UFOs.
Skylight
Want to actually see the people you follow? Done. Want to decide what shows up in your feed, and what doesn't? Easy. A social app where your interests come first.
Predictive processing frameworks for perception can explain recent drone sightings in the United States
We draw on the predictive processing theory of perception to explain why healthy, intelligent, honest, and psychologically normal people might easily misperceive lights in the sky as threatening or extraordinary objects, especially in the context of WEIRD (western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic) societies. We argue that the uniquely sparse properties of skyborne and celestial stimuli make it difficult for an observer to update prior beliefs, which can be easily fit to observed lights. Moreover, we hypothesize that humans have likely evolved to perceive the sky and its perceived contents as deeply meaningful. Finally, we briefly discuss the possible role of generalized distrust in scientific institutions and ultimately argue for the importance of astronomy education for producing a society with prior beliefs that support veridical perception.
Best tips for travelling light?
47 votes, 33 comments. What are your most useful tips for travelling light? Which items can be multi-tasking? Any lifestyle changes you made to be…
The Unsolvable Dilemma: Open Networks vs. Economic Sustainability - Nightflight
Early results are encouraging: experiences organizing against the surveillance-industrial complex in the ATmosphere and the fediverses
Part 3 of The time is right
Finding light leaks
886 votes, 60 comments. Made myself a contraption to find light leaks. Found one that's been puzzling me for a long time.
What Did Ancient Humans Do at Night?
In Deep
The numbers are simply mind-blowing: up to £264 billion for a climate “solution” that will increase emissions. Has the government lost its mind?
