----- Original Message -----
From: "Tor Arntsen" <kspt.tor at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Cc: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2011 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Colors and Colours, perception of (was Re: rl02 disks
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 22:30, Fred Cisin <cisin at
xenosoft.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, Andrew Burton wrote:
>> Going OT, but there have been studies about colour. For example, IIRC,
blue
Gotta URL?
Look up 'melatonin' and blue light via the Famous Web Search Engine
and there's lots of stuff. One is here:
http://www.denvernaturopathic.com/bluelightandmelatonin.htm
and there are others, but it's maybe a good idea to not only read the
popular-press versions.. it's more complicated than that. There are a
number of studies which show that it's not as easy as 'see some blue
light = your nocturnal period is disrupted' as would be the conclusion
from the popular press articles. This paper
http://www.mendeley.com/research/indirect-blue-light-does-not-suppress-noct…
says something about that, and the papers it refers
also seem to (from
a casual glance) to say that it's not as simple as 'blue=awake'.
The interesting thing though is the discovery that there are indeed
blue-sensitive receptors in the eye which are independent of the other
three receptors and is only about detecting the existence of bluish
light, and its purpose seems to about resetting/syncing the bodyclock
cycle.
-Tor
Thanks for the links. I was going to post some, but had to wait until the
Christmas celebrations had finished (e.g. everything had gone back to normal
here). I'll see if I can find some links for the program I watched too
though.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk