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Brox traces the story of mankind's desire to keep the party we call civilization going after the sun sets.
Dr. Philip Neches: iPad in the Dark Dr. Philip Neches 2010
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Sean is along to try and bag girls even though he has a gorgeous girlfriend named Sarah (Brox) back at home.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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Brox traces the story of mankind's desire to keep the party we call civilization going after the sun sets.
Dr. Philip Neches: iPad in the Dark Dr. Philip Neches 2010
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Brox traces the story of mankind's desire to keep the party we call civilization going after the sun sets.
Dr. Philip Neches: iPad in the Dark Dr. Philip Neches 2010
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Brox traces the story of mankind's desire to keep the party we call civilization going after the sun sets.
Dr. Philip Neches: iPad in the Dark Dr. Philip Neches 2010
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Before gaslight and then electrical lighting, Brox writes, "light -- however meager -- had always been one's own and self-contained within each dwelling."
Shining a light on the way artificial light has changed our lives Joshua Glenn 2010
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It's time, Brox urges, to "think rationally about light and what it means to us."
Shining a light on the way artificial light has changed our lives Joshua Glenn 2010
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The advent of new lighting in the 19th century, Brox notes, "stratified society and intensified the separateness of countryside and city, household and industry."
Shining a light on the way artificial light has changed our lives Joshua Glenn 2010
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Though she celebrates human ingenuity and technical advances in "Brilliant," her history of artificial light, Brox also presents damning evidence that in our millennia-long quest for ever more and brighter light, we've despoiled the natural world, abandoned our self-sufficiency and trained ourselves to sleep and dream less while working more.
Shining a light on the way artificial light has changed our lives Joshua Glenn 2010
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Part of the allure of electric lighting, Brox recounts, was its supposed cleanliness: "All the attendant work and grime of production existed somewhere out of sight."
Shining a light on the way artificial light has changed our lives Joshua Glenn 2010
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