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Best Northern Lights in 50 years

  Nature’s Disco: See the Northern Lights – the 4:26-min video clip in this post is definitely worth a look, especially for those of us who’ve never seen the this amazing phenomenon in real life.  Photo Credit: Moyan_Brenn/flickr Scientists predict this winter to be the best in 50 years to experience …

Smart city lighting

  Creating a City-Wide Energy Internet – A joint report from Philips and Cisco for “an intelligent, networked public lighting infrastructure” involves moving from fluorescent city lighting to an interconnected system based on LED technology. “An independent, global trial of LED technology in 12 of the world’s largest cities found …

The invention of LED

How Lasers Inspired the Inventor of the LED – Wired interview with Nick Holonyak Jr., the inventor of the LED 50 years ago.  There are a number of additional links on the LED’s history at the bottom of the post.