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Topic: Light

Direstor, David Lynch in San Francisco, California to promote his arguably strangest film to date, "Inland Empire," on January 19, 2007. (Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

David Lynch's light will never go out

Kelly McClure
A spectrum is projected onto a human eye (Getty Images/LWA)

Why color may not objectively exist

Carlyn Zwarenstein
(Getty Images)

How lasers became synonymous with cool

Jason Rhode

Enhance your home in a variety of colors

Salon Marketplace
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the science of seeing

Thomas Cronin - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=3499054'>franckreporter</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-658339p1.html'>Vadim Georgiev</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Welcome to the permanent dusk

Henry Grabar

Paul Bogard
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