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Now if you've ever seen or even heard about fireflies, then you'll know how magically they can transform our everyday landscape into something ethereal and otherworldly, and this happens around the globe, like this hillside in the Smoky Mountains that I saw transformed into a living cascade of light by the eerie glows of these blue ghost fireflies, or a roadside river that I visited in Japan as it was giving birth to the slow, floating flashes of these Genji fireflies, or in Malaysia, the mangrove trees that I watched blossom nightly not with flowers but with the lights of a thousand — (Bleep!
But how could these bright lights have benefited some proto-firefly?
Well, we know that these juveniles make nasty-tasting chemicals that help them survive their extended childhood, so we think these lights first evolved as a warning, a neon sign that says, "Toxic!
It took many millions of years before these bright lights evolved into a smart communication tool that could be used not just to ward off potential predators but to bring in potential mates.
When we tested females using blinking LED lights, we discovered they prefer males who give longer-lasting flashes.
Now we get to see what happens when the lights go out.
This evolutionary flaw, which was discovered by my colleague Tom Eisner, has driven these fireflies to take their bright lights out into the night with treacherous intent.
As we work together to craft a planetary future, I hope we can find a way to keep these bright lights shining.
Please forgive us when we spend one week in a place that has 100 percent light discipline, because you're not allowed to walk around with white lights, because if anything has a white light, it can be seen from miles away, versus if you use little green or little blue lights, they cannot be seen from far away.
Some people I know, just before they go to sleep, instead of scrolling through their messages or checking out YouTube, just turn out the lights and listen to some music, and notice that they sleep much better and wake up much refreshed.
I love the energy of the night markets, the colors, the lights, the toys, and all the unexpected things I find every time I go, things like watermelon with straw antennas or puppies with mohawks.
I would take camera LED lights and a bungee cord and strap it on my waist and I would videotape my belly button, get a different perspective, and see what it does.
The moment the lights go down is often the best part.
Imagine, in the empty desert, you come upon a huge wheel ringed in skeletons, and someone invites you to come pull a series of heavy ropes at its base, so you walk to one side, where a team is waiting, and you all throw your backs into it, and you pull in turn, and eventually, the wheel roars to life, lights begin to flicker, and the audience cheers, and you've just activated Peter Hudson's "Charon," one of the world's largest zoetropes.
Here, under a canopy of dancing lights set to classical music, participants could escape the thumping rave beats and chaos all around.
Well, we did win, and our name was literally in lights over Madison Square Garden.
For a moment, all I saw was white, bright white, like these lights.
I realized, that in switching all the lights off in the apartment before I left, that I was leaving him in the dark.
We are now in the middle of peace talks, and we've been trying to help resolve this problem peacefully, and as part of that, we decided to try something completely lateral and different: Christmas lights.
So Christmas lights, and you're saying, what the hell is this guy going to talk about?
I am going to talk about gigantic trees that we put in nine strategic pathways in the jungle covered with Christmas lights.
Certainly, if in the future we learn there is an area of the human brain that lights up when one curses oneself, I won't be at all surprised.
Take M-KOPA, the home solar solution that comes literally in a box that has a solar rooftop panel, three LED lights, a solar radio, and a cell phone charger.
What you are going to see very quickly is Juliano Pinto in the exo doing the kick a few minutes before we went to the pitch and did the real thing in front of the entire crowd, and the lights you are going to see just describe the operation.
Basically, the blue lights pulsating indicate that the exo is ready to go.
Conversely, the reduced light pollution saves over a billion birds each year whose migrations were disrupted by blinking communication tower lights and high-tension wires.
You know those fluorescent lights and the endless corridors and those rows of uncomfortable chairs.
I'm sitting in a windowless office room inside the Office of the Independent Counsel, underneath humming fluorescent lights.
Cameras can take pictures like this one by converting lights into a two-dimensional array of numbers known as pixels, but these are just lifeless numbers.
BF: This one's a little ... Who's doing the lights?
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