Living Light How Bioluminescent Organisms Are Quietly Entering the Vastu Home By Arindam Bose ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ There is a moment in every materials story where the laboratory stops being abstract and starts feeling inevitable. For me, that moment came not while reading about transparent wood or acoustic metamaterials , but while staring at a photograph of a small French town square lit entirely by saltwater tubes filled with glowing bacteria. No wires. No electricity. Just life, emitting light. The photograph showed André Thome Square in Rambouillet, about 60 kilometers south of Paris, where a startup called Glowee had installed what they call "living light" — bioluminescent microorganisms encased in transparent cylinders, fed oxygen and nutrients, glowing a soft blue-green throughout the night. The light was dim, maybe 15 to 20 lumens per square meter, barely enough to read by. But it was steady, organic, and alive in a way no ...

  Transparent Wood When Labs Meet Living Rooms and Glass Learns to Breathe By Arindam Bose ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ There is a moment in every materials story where the laboratory stops being abstract and starts feeling inevitable. For me, that moment came while reading about a German researcher named Siegfried Fink who, back in 1992, took ordinary wood and made it see-through—not for architecture or windows, but simply to study the hidden cavities inside timber under a microscope. He published quietly. The work sat dormant for two decades. Then, around 2016, separate teams at Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland rediscovered his process, refined it, scaled it, and suddenly the material science world woke up to something it had been sleeping on: wood that behaves like glass, insulates better than glass, and doesn't shatter like glass. That is transparent wood . And if the trajectory holds—and the numbers suggest it w...

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  Vastu-Compliant Smart Lighting: Where Ancient Energy Meets Modern Light Science By Arindam Bose For years, I thought of lighting as a “finishing touch”—the last layer after layout, furniture, and color. The more I read Vaastu Shastra and studied smart lighting systems , the more one idea began to fascinate me: what if light itself is not just decorative, but a structural force in how a home feels, heals, and performs? Today’s post is not written as a Vastu expert or a lighting engineer, but as a student standing at the intersection of two worlds: ancient directional wisdom and modern circadian science. Vastu-compliant smart lighting, for me, is where these worlds quietly shake hands. What Vastu Really Says About Light One clarification first: classical Vaastu texts were written long before LEDs, dimmers, or ceiling spotlights existed. They do not tell us “use 3000K in the southwest and 6500K in the northeast.” What they do focus on is: Maximizing sunlight and openness in t...