Science

The Triad is about to get a whole group of noisy visitors. Millions of them in fact, as the 17-year Cicadas emerge from the ground looking for love,  and the Cicada circle of life continues.

First there were incandescent lights.  We've been using them ever since Thomas Edison invented the first practical ones.  One problem: they're quite inefficient. Then there were fluorescents. They tend to hum and buzz,  and really nothing looks all that good under fluorescent light.  And compact fluorescent bulbs...