Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/20/we-need-a-science-of-the-night.html
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And also turn off those stupid lights in NYC.
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I’ve been running a lifetime longitudinal study that suggests strongly that the nighttime is the right time for sleeping.
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Bugs need the dark, too:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00665-7
J Geils Band are also fans:
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Trying to think of a “Because the night belongs to scientists” pun.
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So the “science of the night” would study the creatures of the night, yes?
(I’m sorry, I really am. But ever since seeing the topic title I’ve been trying to chase that earworm out of my head. So I’m sharing it. 
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Bingo.
I personally noted the slow disappearance of insect populations because I remember being wowed by hundreds of moths flying around a streetlamp in rural New Hampshire when I was a child, but when I’m back there now I see hardly any (plus I don’t get a car covered in dead bugs on long summer trips like we used to when I was a kid.)
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Riddick approves.
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Just bear in mind that every group of terrestrial chordates that survived the Cretaceous did so because they were insectivores.
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Well that’s . . uhhh . . . what’s a word for the opposite of “comforting”?
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Me.
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Do you want to discover vampires? Because that’s how you discover vampires.
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is that low light or the highlight
But what’s the strategy for surviving the Cretinous Period?
Will there be opera?
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That’s also because of introduced European Tachinid flies that eat army worms (ag pests) but also attack any other moth or butterfly.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is not opera.
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Don’t worry, I have a different earworm
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No medical studies have been done on night shift workers? That’s pretty amazing. Sad but amazing.
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