If you’ve ever tried to compare flashlights or lighting of any kind, you’ve probably been confronted with a bunch of confusing terms like lumen and lux that are supposed to describe how powerful a ...

Because of the need to see the trails in more detail, brighter is better. You want a minimum of 800 lumens for well-graded ...

Welcome again to the wonderful but sometimes weird world of wireless comms, written by Joel Young, CTO of Digi International.When I go to the store to buy light bulbs, I keep running into all of these ...

“Inebriate of air – am I,” wrote Emily Dickinson, and the same might be said of Spencer Finch. For the past thirty years, the cerebral American artist has been translating the evanescent conditions of ...

1 lux is equal to 1 lumen per square meter, so in this example, a pavement or patch of tarmac 10 meters ahead of you will receive 95 lumens of light. Lux is less commonly discussed anywhere outside of ...

In "A Lover's Discourse," Roland Barthes lists the fragmented thoughts of a lover seeing the world. In it he asks, "Who will write the history of tears?" Violet Hopkins offers an answer at the ...

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