Serious Readers Blog
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UK breakthrough in turning light into matter
Monday 14 July 2014Physicists have uncovered a surprisingly straightforward strategy for turning light into matter, which would prove an 80-year-old theory hitherto held to be impossible.
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UK breakthrough in turning light into matter
14 Jul 2014 -
UK lead Europe with LED Football Floodlights
Monday 14 July 2014Southampton FC’s St Mary’s ground is set to become the first football stadium in Europe to install LED floodlighting to comply with Premier League requirements for a higher level of light output.
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UK lead Europe with LED Football Floodlights
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Can lighting affect glaucoma? Recent study begs the question…
Thursday 10 July 2014A recently published study suggests that older people with glaucoma suffer greater problems at home than during an eye test in a clinic. Is poor home lighting to blame?
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Can lighting affect glaucoma? Recent study begs the question…
10 Jul 2014 -
The Higher Your Education the ‘Higher Risk’ of Having This Eye Condition
Friday 04 July 2014There might be a scientific reason backing why glasses are often included the stereotypical portrayal of a “nerd.”
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The Higher Your Education the ‘Higher Risk’ of Having This Eye Condition
4 Jul 2014 -
Why Lighting is Important for the Aging Eye
Wednesday 18 June 2014Lighting can make a critical difference to elderly people with deteriorating vision. Engineers, architects and designers trying to design spaces that can be fully utilized by both old and young must consider how to meet the visual needs of the increasingl
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Why Lighting is Important for the Aging Eye
18 Jun 2014 -
Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral transformed by LED lighting
Tuesday 18 March 2014The 12th-century French-Gothic Cathedral has been relit with over 400 Philips LEDs.
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Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral transformed by LED lighting
18 Mar 2014 -
Could this app allow you to read War and Peace in a day?
Tuesday 11 March 2014A new app called Spritz claims to be able to increase users’ reading speed to as much as 1,000 words a minute.
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Could this app allow you to read War and Peace in a day?
11 Mar 2014 -
Which Country Reads the Most?
Tuesday 04 March 2014According to the NOP World Culture Score Index, readers in India are making the rest of us look bad.
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Which Country Reads the Most?
4 Mar 2014 -
Wikipedia 1,000-volume print edition planned
Thursday 20 February 2014It would run to over a million pages, featuring more than four million articles by 20 million volunteers: an "record-breaking" new project to turn Wikipedia into 1,000 books has just launched on Indiegogo .
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Wikipedia 1,000-volume print edition planned
20 Feb 2014 -
How to avoid digital eyestrain
Thursday 13 February 2014Editor's note: Dr. Edward Kondrot, founder of the Healing The Eye & Wellness Center, is the world's only board-certified ophthalmologist and board-certified homeopathic physician.
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How to avoid digital eyestrain
13 Feb 2014 -
Eyes-On GlassOff, the App that Promises to Improve Failing Eyesight
Monday 10 February 2014The phrase “hack your body” is often a catch-all term for suspect life advice, generally given by overly excited entrepreneurs and slimy motivational speakers
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Eyes-On GlassOff, the App that Promises to Improve Failing Eyesight
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100 Books Everyone Should Read Before They Die
Friday 07 February 2014A book editors have just released a list of their 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.
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100 Books Everyone Should Read Before They Die
7 Feb 2014
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