{"id":10695,"date":"2024-11-22T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T23:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=10695"},"modified":"2024-12-01T17:33:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T01:33:22","slug":"flickering-light-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/22\/flickering-light-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Flickering Light Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a\u00a0<b>large, funded research\u00a0project<\/b>, I&#8217;m looking for locations where people spend large amounts of time under flickering lights. If you know of such locations, please reach out to me! Please don&#8217;t reach out to the owners of the lighting yet, that would be the job of the lead researchers.<\/p>\n<p>You can verify the lighting flickers by setting your phone to record on super-slow mode and record a short video. If the resulting video flickers <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/iY38KcN_Oko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/iY38KcN_Oko&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1732396886683000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1p9NBOdOOXkeLcUsqxBlo0\">like this<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Z939-6nvzY&amp;t=24s\">this<\/a> you&#8217;re on the right track!<\/p>\n<p>The best locations for this research project have ballast-bypass lighting, where the old fluorescent ballast was removed and replaced with LED-based tubes. But any area where people spend lots of time under flickering lighting is worth mentioning!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ballast-bypass-LED-tube-lighting-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ballast-bypass-LED-tube-lighting-600x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ballast-bypass-LED-tube-lighting-600x167.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ballast-bypass-LED-tube-lighting-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ballast-bypass-LED-tube-lighting-120x33.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ballast-bypass-LED-tube-lighting-768x213.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ballast-bypass-LED-tube-lighting-1536x427.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ballast-bypass-LED-tube-lighting-2048x569.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ballast-bypass-LED-tube-lighting-50x14.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great locations would be:<br \/>\n&#8211; locations or organizations where tens to thousands of people\u00a0use lighting that flickers<br \/>\n&#8211; anywhere in the US<br \/>\n&#8211; K-12 school classrooms<br \/>\n&#8211; offices<br \/>\n&#8211; academic testing centers<br \/>\n&#8211; industrial work spaces<\/p>\n<p>Finding these locations could make a big difference and we need your help!<\/p>\n<p>To recap:\u00a0<b>If you know of places where people spend large amounts of time under flickering lighting, please email me at Lee@Lee.org.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Please forward this to anyone you think should get it.<br \/>\nBest regards,<br \/>\nLee Sonko<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/flicker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.lee.org\/flicker\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1732396886683000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3S61lsMwRydjD3X71r2S2h\">lee.org\/flicker<\/a><br \/>\n#FlickeringLightProject<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a\u00a0large, funded research\u00a0project, I&#8217;m looking for locations where people spend large amounts of time under flickering lights. If you know of such locations, please reach out to me! Please don&#8217;t reach out to the owners of the lighting yet, that would be the job of the lead researchers. You can verify the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}