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From: moran-william@CS.YALE.EDU (William Moran)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: fluorescent lights and my brain
Message-ID: <27927@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 88 07:48:25 GMT
References: <530@scourge> <1182@ssc.UUCP>
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Reply-To: moran-william@CS.YALE.EDU (William L. Moran Jr.)
Organization: Yale University - Dept. of Computer Science
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Keywords: eyes head ache electricity

In article <1182@ssc.UUCP> markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier) writes:
>In article <530@scourge>, harrym@sco.COM (Harry Max) writes:
>> Hello world,
>> 
>> I just started a new job and now must work under
>> fluorescent lights.  My brain seems to be adversely
>> effected my the lights.  I have been going home with
>> a lot of eye- and brain-strain.
>> 
... stuff deleted
>2) Get a decent chair.  Some people will bend over their VDT like a
>contortionist chipmunk and then start to blame their aches and pains on
>the computer :-).

This is interesting because the other evening, I was looking at my
workstation (a sun 3/60 with a 1600x1280 BW display), and I was
getting a headache. Then, I noticed that the edge of the screen looked
like it was wavering, but I wasn't sure whether or not it was my
imagination, so I asked someone else to take a look at the screen, and
he agreed that it looked like it was wavering. Eventually, I
discovered that it was the result of having an indirect light on
(flourescent), and when I turned that light off everything was fine.
Further, I found that no other workstation seemed to have that
problem. So, you might try different combinations of lights, as other
flourescent lights may not cause problems.


			  
			  William L. Moran Jr.
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