You light a candle in a dark room. Now suppose a mirror is brought in. Is the room brighter? If you say no, you may find yourself battling your own intuition. Something in us wants to say there ...

Industry pros often veer quite dim in their lighting preferences. Erin Boone, the founder and principal designer at Boone ...

So many ancient traditions center around lighting candles at ... way through the dark, hand in hand each morning, silent, or nearly so, necks craned towards the black and shining sky, utterly ...

Such claims might come from 1940s work out of Columbia University that looked at how the eye responds to flashes of light in a dark room. This is a different question, says Krisciunas, who adds that ...