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Smarter Kids at 10 Bucks a Pop
A primary school student with glasses from the Gansu Vision Intervention Project in Gansu, China. (Photo: Albert Park) Our latest episode of Freakonomics Radio (you can download/subscribe at iTunes,...
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It’s Hard to Learn if You Can’t See the Blackboard
A primary school student with glasses from the Gansu Vision Intervention Project in Gansu, China. (Photo: Albert Park) Our most recent podcast — “Smarter Kids at 10 Bucks a Pop” — was about a pair of...
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Is Eyeglass Recycling a Waste of Money?
(Photo: torbakhopper) Recycling your old eyeglasses may make you feel better, but, in Bloomberg View, Virginia Postrel argues that it’s actually a waste of money. Postrel tracks the journey from...
View ArticleEvidence That Myopia Has a Strong Environmental Cause
Time reports on a new study on why Asians have a higher rate of nearsightedness: It has long been thought that nearsightedness is mostly a hereditary problem, but researchers led by Ian Morgan of...
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Playing the Nerd Card: A New Marketplace Podcast
(Photo: photosteve101) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Playing the Nerd Card.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player...
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