Light
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Newyork
Thomas Neff, Who Turned Soviet Warheads Into Electricity, Dies at 80
An M.I.T. physicist, he engineered an East-West deal that reduced nuclear threats and produced one of the greatest peace dividends of all time.
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Newyork
Larry Light, Marketer Behind Revival of McDonald’s, Dies at 83
A branding expert, he deployed the “I’m lovin’ it” campaign globally in 2003 to bring customers and sales back to the fast-food giant when it was in a slump.
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Books
Keeping the Lights on at the Met Museum Is an Art in Itself
There’s a job opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And it’ll give you the opportunity to skulk around the museum’s treasures when the public isn’t there. The catch: It requires you to not be afraid of heights. To embrace them, even. The opening ...
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Books
Adventures in Space and Time With Stockhausen
An elliptical halo of thin, concentrated light floated in the capacious drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory on a recent morning, above a circular space designed to dissolve your sense of space and time. At the center was Kathinka Pasveer, the widow ...
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World
Scanning the Dark Universe, Euclid Finds Scenes of Cosmic Light
Scanning the Dark Universe, Euclid Finds Scenes of Cosmic LightBy Katrina Miller Euclid, a European Space Agency telescope launched into space last summer, finally showed off what it’s capable of with a batch of breathtaking images and early science ...
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Newyork
The Northern Lights I Did Not See
I spend a fair amount of time looking at the sky, for the sky is nearly always full of magic. Storm clouds churning, autumn leaves flying, birds performing the never-ending miracle of flight. Often at night, I am looking for the moon. Who could fail ...
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Science
Northern Lights Set to Return During Extreme Solar Storm’s 2nd Night
Electrical utilities said they weathered earlier conditions as persistent geomagnetic storms were expected to cause another light show in evening skies.
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Science
In Coral Fossils, Searching for the First Glow of Bioluminescence
A new study resets the timing for the emergence of bioluminescence back to millions of years earlier than previously thought.
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Science
Like Moths to a Flame? We May Need a New Phrase.
Over time researchers have found fewer of the insects turning up in light traps, suggesting they may be less attracted to some kinds of light than they once were.
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Newyork
Marian Zazeela, an Artist of Light and Design, Dies at 83
She pivoted from painting to lighting exhibitions, performance art, graphic design and minimalist music, performed with her husband, the composer La Monte Young.