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- pe5t1lence, on 11/08/2009, -0/+34DAMN! Why does the solution to Everything have to be "Go Outside"??? Seriously, outside is where that evil flaming ball stares at me.
- darzeecompany, on 11/08/2009, -0/+21Too blurry, didn't read.
- TrouserJazz, on 11/08/2009, -1/+18"At the end of the five-day trial, those [chicks] exposed to intense light - half as bright as direct sunlight and 30 times brighter than normal indoor lighting - were on average 40 per cent less short-sighted than chicks exposed to normal laboratory light levels during those 15 minutes."
And you test a chicken's eyesight how exactly? With tiny chicken eye charts? - darthjure, on 11/08/2009, -0/+14Ashby attempted to induce myopia in a group of chicks by blurring their vision using special lenses...
Scientists are always looking for an opportunity to work with chicks. - techdever, on 11/08/2009, -0/+13Just reading all that text gave me myopia...
- javarox, on 11/08/2009, -0/+9Sauron?
- GTMopo3, on 11/08/2009, -0/+7why not do a study where the kids have homes with more natural light , but don't really go out side. Or possible try uv lights inside.
- Eurynom0s, on 11/08/2009, -0/+6You know, I'm extremely nearsighted. My contacts prescription is -9 in my right eye and -9.5 in my left eye. Apparently the contact lens manufacturers don't even bother with quarter steps at my strength.
Yes it's a pain in the ass sometimes dealing with contacts and glasses. Being out at a bar and my eyes start drying out with contacts in just sucks, and falling asleep with contacts in is no fun either.
But to be honest I sort of like being nearsighted because if I take off all corrective lenses and put things right up to my face I can see them bigger and in more detail. It's kind of like having a built-in magnifying glass. If I had good vision I would probably not want to become nearsighted just for this, but something tells me if I got corrective surgery I'd miss this ability. - Perk, on 11/08/2009, -5/+9Make em go outside and stop using screens for 17 hours a day? Wish my job would do that...
- LittleGerms, on 11/08/2009, -0/+3Interesting read. Yes, a reason to pin my myopia has always been evasive. I always dissatisfiedly blamed it on genetics while my parents blamed TV and COMPUTER.
- js281, on 11/08/2009, -0/+3FTA "Around the edges of a book or computer screen the world is further away and blurred"
42 inch monitors on every desk would sort that out. And would also be sweet. - Almightymole, on 11/08/2009, -0/+2Who wouldn't work the chicks.
- bubbachuck, on 11/09/2009, -1/+3this is how science is done: by carefully controlling what you are testing for, looking at large sample numbers, and considering alternative explanations. Please remember this article the next time you think about the results of some "popular science" article.
- Qumahlin, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2You don't even need to use eye charts anymore. My doctor has a retinal topography machine. You simply look into it and there will be a blurred image that the computer will adjust until it comes into focus without you doing anything.
Machine then spits out your retinal diagram and your guessed prescription needed and its usually spot on - Qumahlin, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2No. Read up on LASIK, even Intralase LASIK does not permanently correct your eyes. Eventually you will end up needing glasses again. If you get LASIK when your young you buy yourself a great deal of time, but you won't be 50-60 with perfect eye sight.
- yeahaboutthat, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1I guess mom was right when she said not to sit so close to the TV
- someology, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1lol! Not me! I hate my glasses, but losing an arm, I'd never be able to play an instrument again, or do arts as easily, or type as quickly.
- TexMexRex, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Then you didn't read the article.
- burgerkinghorn, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Wouldn't laser surgery work as a permanent solution? I'm mildly near-sighted and I've been thinking about getting LASIK.
- yeahaboutthat, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Well, we could simply start making kids use computers with screens on the opposite side of the room. That should make them want to go outside!
- jarrisondiggs, on 11/08/2009, -1/+2there might be something interesting in this article, i think i see a dolphin, no wait...
- someology, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1I too, have long noticed this effect. I can take off my glasses and look very closely and read extremely tiny blurry print that others with normal vision cannot. I also find that wearing normal plain glass swimming goggles(no prescription lenses), while swimming under water, I can see the entire pool quite clearly, more so than others with normal vision. Then again, fish are myopic, right?
- Fury69, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Because they can't interact with them anywhere else.
- clintcoady, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1I ***** hate my glasses. I would give my left arm to have perfect vision.
- yacks, on 11/08/2009, -1/+1i'm the last person in my family not to need glasses... i'm 31 and still see perfectly ok...
- ThatsNotPudding, on 11/08/2009, -1/+1Peripheral vision was important to see the Sabre-Tooth tiger sneaking up on you; being a couch-potato, not so much.
- anthropodeus, on 11/08/2009, -1/+1myopia is on the rise in the US in a figurative sense, too. luckily that's starting to be fixed.
- Gondring, on 11/08/2009, -6/+5From the title, I thought this was about all the short-sighted political Diggers who fail to see the consequences of what they promote .
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