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Of course, by talking about science I also may, as I did the other night, incur the violent wrath of some scientists who were very upset with me.
It is almost the end of the winter, and you've woken up to a cold house, which is weird, because you left the heater on all night.
One of my favorite things was drifting silently through the space station, which was humming along at night.
We knew what was keeping the CEO up at night and what he thought were tailwinds to the business.
Now, mind you, this is a woman who wasn't used to taking public transportation at all, let alone at night.
Some people who came in the mornings also started to come the night before.
So next time you're outdoors on a muggy night and you see a firefly, I hope you think of enzymes.
Now, our surprise turned to shock in the first award of the night, the young category, when we beat all of the other states and won the Australian Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
When the shock had worn off, we got a lot of champagne to the table and the party began, and the night was surely over.
Fast-forward to the last award of the night, and our shock turned into everybody's shock when we won the Australian Entrepreneur of the Year against all of the other categories.
A great example from my more recent past, a few months ago, I was up late at night with one of my kids, and I saw something on Twitter about Tesla saying that they could solve South Australia's rolling series of power crises with one of their large industrial batteries.
He'd been tracking the position of Uranus across the night sky using old star catalogs, and it didn't quite go around the Sun the way that his predictions said it should.
He sent his prediction to the Berlin observatory, they opened up their telescope and in the very first night they found this faint point of light slowly moving across the sky and discovered Neptune.
We are not going to match Le Verrier's "make a prediction, have the planet found in a single night that close to where you predicted it" record.
How much does it take to keep a night guard warm rather than force them to burn rubbish to stay warm in winter?
And I was watching the news one night in Oxford.
I'm an astronomer, so it's really no surprise probably to anyone that I've always loved the night sky.
But when I was growing up in Minnesota, one of my favorite things to do on a summer evening was grab my old Raggedy Ann sleeping bag and take it out into a field behind my house, where I would spend hours looking at the night sky.
But there was one particular star that I would look for, night after night.
That star I looked to night after night was called Vega.
For people who live in urban and suburban environments, if they go outside at night and look up, instead of being awestruck by the majesty of the universe, they see pretty much nothing.
These unremarkable, completely blank night skies, of course are due to all of the light we produce at night.
For example, if dog whelks are subjected to artificial light at night they're about twice as likely to stay under the water with a predator.
You are probably not surprised to hear that light pollution can affect your ability to sleep well at night.
For people who are subjected to significant amounts of artificial light at night they're about 50 percent more likely to get breast cancer.
And in controlled lab experiments there's a direct link between increased artificial light at night and a rate of tumor growth.
What happens is that when light impacts the retina at the back of our eye at night it can disrupt melatonin production, and when melatonin production is disrupted, a whole chain of other chemical processes are affected, and that includes estrogen production.
And I use lights at night like everybody else.
If you have never seen a truly dark night sky, I want you to go out and experience one for yourself.
It's a little bit like, if you wanted to map the surface of our planet and everything on it using this picture of the Earth from space at night.
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