The Puzzling Rise in Nearsighted Children
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#2Kids spening too much time on phones, like Chinese got nearsighted spending too much time doing schoolwork.
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#3Related article that made the rounds recently: http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120
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#4tablets
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#5Kids should be outside playing, not coding.
Adults, too.
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#6Kids spening too much time on phones, like Chinese got nearsighted spending too much time doing schoolwork.
Use your phone or do your schoolwork outside and your eyes will be fine.
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#7Kids should be outside playing, not coding. Adults, too.
Coding is playing.
Just kidding, of course. One thing I've noticed is that my kids have vastly more homework than I ever had, and homework now starts in kindergarten. There are only so many waking hours in the day.
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#8I have always wondered about this phenomenon. It always just seemed unreasonably coincidental that as soon as we started testing children and could prescribe them glasses, there seemed to be an epidemic. Historical documents never seemed to showcase a perpetual 50%+ nearsightedness epidemic.
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#9Related article that made the rounds recently: http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120
There are multiple startup ideas in that article.
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#10Darwinism dwindling