New light.

Invented by David Carroll, professor of physics at Wake Forest University: He says the new plastic lighting source can be made into any shap...

A neighborly dispute about a light "shining through our bedroom window like a small but intense sun."

"In my country, terawatt globes are reserved for police helicopter chases and warning sailors of hazardous shoals. This is despite the ...

The 8 ghosts that haunt "Dreams From My Father."

This is the second in a series of posts based on the search for a single word in Barack Obama's memoir "Dreams From My Father....

What is the carbon footprint of the 340-ton rock transported on a 196-wheel vehicle on an 11-day journey to an art museum in L.A.?

And why doesn't The New York Times, celebrating the project on its website front page , question the environmentalism of this project? I...

At the Orange Café...

... you can talk all night. (And consider doing a little shopping at Amazon . I just bought a couple more 24-packs of 100-watt incandescent ...

"But for the incandescent aficionados, fluorescent lights tend to be associated with morgues, prisons and tenement hallways."

Cultural historian Christopher Cook says they have a "'cold creepiness' and make you feel like you're being interrogated....

"It was never my goal for Washington to decide what type of light bulbs Americans should use."

"The public response on this issue is a clear signal that markets – not governments – should be driving technological advancements. I w...

"Lone Star State secedes from incandescent light ban."

The North County Times reports: Texans can keep buying traditional incandescent light bulbs, under a bill allowed to become law this week by...

Does the NYT care about the carbon footprint of its wonderful pizza-cooking technique?

"Heat the oven and pizza stone at 500 degrees for one hour..." Oh, hell! Shut up about my light bulbs. Just. Shut. The. Fuck. Up....

"In classic doublespeak, the Department of Energy explains that outlawing incandescent bulbs will 'empower consumers with lighting choices.'"

"Unless your choice is to buy the light bulb the government doesn't like. If Republicans can't understand the appeal of sparing...

"You can pile packages of 100w bulbs against the wall and save on energy costs too."

Says rh. May I recommend? 48-pack of "basic" bulbs for only $31.99 48-pack of "reveal" bulbs for $89.99 And lots of 4-pa...

Do I even have to say it?

I'm reading this NYRB essay by Lorrie Moore and I get to this passage: Barbara dies at fifty-five—the halfway point of the book. Meghan ...

"But sequencing the troubles, the activism need never end."

I said that in the previous post , the one about light bulbs. I'm quoting myself because I want to quote Bob Dylan, about doors: first o...

"Electrical smog develops around" CFL light bulbs — phenol, naphthalene and styrene.

"They should not be used in unventilated areas and definitely not in the proximity of the head." This is quite apart from the merc...

In London, "protesters threw light bulbs filled with ammonia at police."

Were these old-style incandescent light bulbs or compact fluorescents? Because if they were compact fluorescents, protesters threw light bu...

"... Sinatra was a singularly fluorescent vocal phenomenon."

No, of course that's not what the NYT review of that new book about Frank Sinatra says. It says "Sinatra was a singularly incande...

Incandescent light bulbs.

Stock up! UPDATE: Shining the harsh light of journalism on Arianna Huffington: The light bulbs are the first incongruity I spot waiting for ...

The (possible) return of incandescent light bulbs.

Politico reports: ... Rep. Fred Upton is promising to reexamine a controversial ban on incandescent light bulbs if he becomes chairman of th...

"A small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s."

"The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month...." Oh! It is so s...

"I only eat the light bulb during my breakfast, and each day no more than one bulb."

Wang Xianjun likes eating light bulbs. They're "crispy and delicious." He's 54 and he's being doing it since he was 1...