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I have seen articles about increased health hazards from working nights and then not sleeping in the dark. I think it was claimed that a group of nurses under these conditions had a greater incidence of breast cancer. I find this a bit difficult to accept, until further studies get similar results.
I worked nights for quite a few years and hated it. But I wore an eyeshade to make it easier to sleep. I wonder if that would have protected the nurses in the above mentioned study.
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in The Land of the Midnight Sun?
It's also the Land of the Noontime Dark too, though, so maybe it evens out.
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Ah, but Dr. Bill!...you see the innate prejudice? The fullness of dark, the fullness of night is not allowed to have its zenith, but light is?  And clarify le mot juste for me, please...French is Greek to me.
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My speculation is that the image comes from the medieval and earlier times, when night was a dangerous time to be out because wild and vicious predators (4-legged and also 2-legged) prowled the non-urban areas.
It is likely an image that arose long ago, as in "forces of light vs. forces of darkness".
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Before I came to Indonesia I was thinking about taking a job in Iceland. I did hear that people from more Southern areas working there were very prone to clinical depression during the winter.
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One of my professors gave a lecture on how in literature fair haired women were often portrayed as wicked sluts and darker haired women were more innocent and intelligent. He had his examples which conveniently I have forgotten. But I think I do remember a French song that had a title like Brunettes aren't Prunes. And there was a song in Earth girls are easy, 'Cause I'm a blonde, about being blonde and stupid, (but sexy).
Duct tape is like the force, it has a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together.
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Come to think of it, how can you shed light? Light has no mass, so how can you shed it?
And we never speak of shedding some dark, do we?
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I always understood the "shed" in "shedding light" on something to be used in the sense of "to distribute" or "to cause to be dispersed." I think you can substitute "cast some light on" for the same meaning.
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Ladymoon, it's nice to see you back.  And thank you for giving "the other side"--reckon we all fall prey to generalizations sooner or later. 'Duct tape'...!  Interesting, O Wizard WO'N--no, we never do say shed some darkness, do we?
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i dunno jackie-- we tend to shed thing we don't want too, a winter coat, comes to mind.. shouldn't we want to shed, (to discard) darkness, too?
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