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24 August 2020
Twilight Talk with Robert Fosbury – Video now available
This second Twilight Talk “How the Sun paints the Sky” took place on 24 August 2020. The fascinating exploration of the sky and the physics of its colours offered by Robert Fosbury, emeritus astronomer at the European Southern Observatory and an honorary professor at the Institute of ...
21 August 2020
Celebrating The Daylight Award 2020 laureates
The Daylight Award invites you to the premiere of a series of inspirational documentaries about the 2020 laureates: architect Juha Leiviskä, neuroscientist Russell Foster and photographer and writer Henry Plummer on 2 September 2020 15:00 CET at thedaylightaward.com The documentaries are aimed to ...
11 August 2020
Twilight Talks – First video online!
Yesterday, neurobiologist Tiffany Schmidt opened the Twilight Talks series in a brilliant manner with a speech about the circadian circuits. The video is now available on YouTube and directly below. A big thank you to her for the fascinating webinar and to Manuel Spitschan for the excellent ...
19 June 2020
Blog on daylight in times of coronavirus
We are living in exceptional times and facing a health threat that is disrupting many of our habits and forcing us to spend even more time indoors. One of the main objectives of the Daylight Academy is to create awareness about the health benefits of daylight. This is always important but perhaps ...
19 June 2020
Not to be missed: SLTBR webinar next week!
Thursday, 25 June 2020 09:00-10:00 (CEST) The free webinar “Effects of light on human sleep, circadian rhythms and mental health” is organised by the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR) and features three DLA members: Mirjam Münch Associate Professor for Circadian...
19 June 2020
Twilight Talks – DLA webinars
The “Twilight Talks” invite you to explore from home the secrets of the sky – its colours, its luminosity, its shadows – and the way we perceive it. A fascinating foretaste of the DLA Summer School “Measuring Natural Illumination” which had to be postponed to 2021. 10 ...
16 May 2020
The Daylight Award 2020 goes to…
Juha Leiviskä (Finland), for his works of architecture that demonstrate a unique ability to make daylight an integral element of his buildings, Russell Foster (United Kingdom), for his clinical studies in humans addressing important questions regarding light, and Henry Plummer (United States) who ...
22 April 2020
Daylight, plants and traditional knowledge
At our last Annual Conference, botanist Michael J. Balick and linguist K. David Harrison gave a brilliant keynote speech on the central role of daylight and plants in traditional societies. While the cycle of day and night determines their rhythm of life, plants are carefully observed and used as ...
10 March 2020
Coronavirus and the Sun: a Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
During the influenza pandemic 100 years ago, “medics found that severely ill flu patients nursed outdoors recovered better than those treated indoors. A combination of fresh air and sunlight seems to have prevented deaths among patients; and infections among medical staff.” Could this ...
03 March 2020
New paper out: The Role of Daylight for Humans
Human beings evolved under natural light/dark cycles. Artificial light exposure interacts and competes with this natural light/dark cycle. What are the consequences of our living conditions in industrialised urban areas with much less daylight (and more artificial light) on our health and wellbeing...
09 January 2020