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  • Use your devices without a filter at night and you might get the blues from lack of sleep
    Good Thinking
    One Big Question: Does blocking blue light really matter?
    As more and more devices bathe our eyes in blue light at night, our sleep patterns will be disturbed and it's even possible that some cancer risks might increase​. So what to do? Do blue-light-blocking glasses, screens and filters do anything to help?​ We asked an expert to find out.