Documents tagged 'Light'
Published: 22/01/2008
When dealing with insomnia, color therapy can be of some help. Color therapy or chromotherapy is the use of color to promote general health and also to treat particular maladies (including but not limited to sleep-oriented problems).
Chromotherapy can be used to treat both emotional and...
Published: 22/01/2008
While it is quite technical to deal in physiological technicalities, which can be found in any textbook on ophthalmology, it may be helpful to summarize briefly the structure of the eye. The eyeball is embedded in fat and fibrous tissue and lodged in bony sockets called orbits. It is held in...
Published: 22/01/2008
To play checkers badly is quite easy; and that is the way most people do play it.
Even if you don`t play a perfect game of checkers, you can still enjoy the game. But checkers as the experts play it, with all its richness of ideas and exquisite economy of force is much more fun. It is always...
Published: 22/01/2008
Located on the land protruding from the eastern shore of Lake Huron in Michigan, you'll find the Presque Isle Lighthouse. The name Presque Isle comes from the French term that means "almost an island." Congress appropriated $7,000 to fund the construction of the lighthouse in 1838 and...
Published: 22/01/2008
Named for the Spanish sailor Don Bruno Heceta who discovered the location in 1755, the Heceta Head Lighthouse sits in a beautiful location on the coast of Oregon just north of Florence.
Formerly known as Devil's Elbow State Park, the area includes the cove south of the lighthouse and the...
Published: 20/01/2008
Jamie Lynn Spears may be best known as the sixteen year-old sister of Britney Spears, but as the old year segues into the new, she is already making headlines in her own right. The recent announcement of her pregnancy, her lucrative career as the star of Nickelodeons Zoey 101, and her many and...
Published: 20/01/2008
As a sufferer of a debilitating muscle wasting auto-immune disease I take an obnoxious concoction of bright coloured pills every morning. Without them I would not be able to get out of bed and they have given me back the use of my legs. They are incredibly powerful drugs and although they have an...
Published: 20/01/2008
SAD, otherwise known as 'seasonal affective disorder', is systemic in nature, and this condition can affect anywhere from 5 to 25 percent of the American population.
The symptoms can range from a relatively mild subtype form, of which affects a larger number of people and is commonly known...
Published: 20/01/2008
You know how that famous saying goes: It's all about timing. It goes for a lot of things in life, and in many cases in landscape photography, it's true. While we won't go too in depth into lighting in this article, that's basically what photography is all about. Capturing the light reflected by...
Published: 17/01/2008
Can you imagine any meal being cooked without spices or rather, herbs? You would probably comment, "It tastes like sawdust!" At the same time, it feels rather tiresome to keep making umpteen trips to the market just because you have run out of some herb or the other! Therefore, the best thing...