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Fictional Document
Kryten: Sir, the Space Corps Directives are there to protect us. They are not a set of vindictive pronouncements directed against any one person. Rimmer: Has anyone ever seen this legendary Space Corps Directive Manual? Lister: Well... no. Rimmer: He's making it up, isn't he? The bloody book doesn't exist!
— , "Quarantine"
All the books, magazines, and newspapers that exist only within a fictional world, from the
to the mysteries of . They are more common in , but not restricted to it.
They serve two main narrative purposes: verisimilitude and . Jessica is supp it would be bizarre if no trace of the books she writes existed. Reading the Necronomicon may , but it also gives the reader an idea of the .
Fictional documents are also used to
literary tropes, and as aids to characterisation. Characters comparing their own predicament with their favourite book can get very sarcastic about
it was, while few things so embarrass the
as having her little brother read aloud a few choice passages from her favourite . Sometimes, however, you may just have to .
Sister trope to .
Common types of fictional document include:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FictionalDocumentf.lux: sleep research
software to make your life better
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you kno but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.
& William "Lord Kelvin" Thomson. Lecture on "Electrical Units of Measurement" (3 May 1883), published in Popular Lectures Vol. I, p. 73
Reading on a tablet compared with a book
that compares the effects of reading an iPad before bed, versus a regular paper book.
AMA Report
In 2012, the American Medical Association's Council on Science and Public Health :
"Recognizes that exposure to excessive light at night, including extended use of various
electronic media, can disrupt sleep or exacerbate sleep disorders, especially in children and
adolescents. This effect can be minimized by using dim red lighting in the nighttime
bedroom environment."
Blue Light Affects Sleep (and here's why)
We know that night-time exposure to blue light makes people more alert and also affects their circadian timing.
The science that explains these new systems has accelerated over the last 20 years, with the discovery of a new photopigment in the eye, called , in 1998. Many are familiar with the "rods and cones" that provide our visual capabilities, but the retinal ganglion cells containing melanopsin are sensitive to a wide range of "blue-green" frequencies around 480nm.
A wide range of lights appear to be able to stimulate the circadian system in humans, and so while we refer to "blue light" in order to distinguish it from the light our visual system sees, it includes lights that appear green, blue, cyan, and even orange.
f.luxometer
Popular press coverage of blue light research
cites work by Cajochen et al in the May issue of The Journal of Applied Physiology.
Christian Cajochen's lab did the first work we know of that uses real LED displays and measures them against older computer monitors. Many studies before this used light sources that you could believe were "like" these newer displays, but this paper tests the exact kind of backlight that we all use many hours a day.
Holzman DC 2010. What's in a Color? The Unique Human Health Effects of Blue Light.
Environ Health Perspect 118:A22-A27. doi:10.1289/ehp.118-a22
David C. Holzman does a survey paper on the effects of blue light, with citations as early as 1958.
Open-access research
. If you've tried to search for journal articles and read them online, you know that a large number of scientific journals today are difficult to access, except from within an institution that subscribes. The following bibliography includes the NIH-published versions of some of the work done at Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School).
Joshua J. Gooley, Kyle Chamberlain, Kurt A. Smith, Sat Bir S. Khalsa, Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, Eliza Van Reen, Jamie M. Zeitzer, Charles A. Czeisler, Steven W. Lockley
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2011 M 96(3): E463朎472. Published online 2010 December 30. doi: 10.1210/jc.
Anne-Marie Chang, Frank A J L Scheer, Charles A Czeisler
J Physiol. 2011 March 1; 589(Pt 5): . Published online 2011 January 10. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.
PMC3060589
Lockley SW, Brainard GC, Czeisler CA.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. ):4502-5.
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Jeanne F. Duffy, Charles A. Czeisler. Sleep Med Clin. A available in PMC 2010 June 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sleep Med Clin. 2009 J 4(2): 165