Craig Childs
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Science Friday · Reconnecting with the night sky and reining in light pollution · 10 Jul 2026
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It was because my eye was adjusted.
My sense of light and darkness had changed.
So it made me realize that it's not just about artificial light, but it's also about...
your own perception and your own readiness to look up and watch the sky.
Oh, yes.
I prefer being out there where you lose the name of days and numbers, and you're just going by the rhythm of sunrise, sunset, night, day.
Because that's what our bodies are made for.
We evolved for that, not...
not for the world we live in now.
The human world with light is not one we're really set up for.
Our circadian rhythm is based on the light and dark.
So we really need both of them.
Well, I live in a dark sky community, a town of about 500 and
Western Colorado near the Utah border.
So almost every night since the end of February, I've been sleeping outside here.
So I'm in it and it's real.
It's a sweet spot.
Well, I think it's on a lot of different scales because there's a scale of just your lights where you live, light coming through your window.
I live off grid and for years, we've kind of run low on electricity in the winter and we turned to oil lamps and we...
And it's a really nice thing to have to adjust your own life to the cycles of light going on around you.
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