Random links
- Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Feel-Good Waste of Money
- "In a paper published in March in the journal Optometry and Vision Science, four researchers compare the full costs of delivering used glasses to the costs of instead delivering ready-made glasses in standard powers (like my drugstore readers, but for myopia as well). The authors find that recycled glasses cost nearly twice as much per usable pair."
- Keep on truckin’
- "One of the leading firms in the field, SpaceX, has already notched up a string of successful flights (and a few failures, too) with its Falcon rockets, pictured above. This month it will attempt its most ambitious mission yet: a rendezvous with the space station." - the US may soon be no longer dependent on Russia to deliver stuff into space.
- Green Infrastructure Could Save Cities Billions
- "Looking at 479 case studies of green infrastructure projects around the U.S., the report finds that the majority of projects turned out to be just as affordable or even more so than traditional "grey" infrastructure. About a quarter of projects raised costs, 31 percent, kept costs the same and more than 44 percent actually brought costs down."
- How Researchers Came Up With Nutrition Requirements
- ""Volunteers," by which we mean prisoners, were deprived of nutrients and then given the bare minimum they needed to be restored to health."
- Entry 6: Elisabeth Badinter’s job is to increase sales of baby formula. Why is no one talking about her laughable conflict of interest?
- Found the link in the comments section in the G&M's piece 'The good mother doesn’t exist. She’s a myth'. "The fact that the author of a major new book asserting that breast-feeding “enslaves” and “undermines” women also personally holds controlling interest in the agency of record for the three companies that collectively control much of the infant formula market share in the United States is glaringly disturbing."
- I’ve got “baby fever”
- "Could there be real science behind the old cliche of a woman's biological clock? I didn't believe it -- until now." One particular interesting comment: "Brase, who has studied the issue for nearly a decade, found that beliefs about gender roles — for example, a woman’s conviction that her proper place is in the home — were not strong predictors of baby fever"