Author:  Mary Roach
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Sunlight triggers a cutoff of melatonin, bringing on wakefulness. {Indoor light-particularly the light from tablets and smartphones-can also suppress melatonin, but nowhere near as dramatically as sunlight.} This is why night shift workers who drive home in the morning through sunlight and then struggle to fall asleep may find relief by buying amber-lensed Bono-style glasses that block the sun's blue light wavelengths. NSMRL

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