Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Incandescent light bulbs are known to occasionally shatter in their fixtures—and when they do, it’s both difficult and dangerous ...

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Q A few months past, you wrote about extracting stuck and/or broken bulbs from light fixtures. I work for a power company, and we sometimes have difficulty unscrewing bulbs in streetlights. We prevent ...

Editor's Note: Mark Hetts is on vacation this week. This column originally ran the week of July 11, 2004. Q:You recently wrote about extracting stuck and/or broken bulbs from light fixtures. I work ...

Getting the remnants of a broken light bulb out of a socket should be done with caution. First and foremost: Turn off the power by flipping the switch or throwing the breaker for permanent fixtures, ...