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1engineer said:
Has anyone tried the new "Glasses Off" app? Developed by eye docs in Israel it is supposed to fix a condition and will let you get rid of reading glasses. It somehow retrains your brain over time so that it will recognize fuzzy as clear. I don't have an iphone and right now that is all they offer.
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Never heard of it but will look into it and report back this evening / weekend.

EDIT - downloading now.
 
1engineer said:
Has anyone tried the new "Glasses Off" app? Developed by eye docs in Israel it is supposed to fix a condition and will let you get rid of reading glasses. It somehow retrains your brain over time so that it will recognize fuzzy as clear. I don't have an iphone and right now that is all they offer.
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As you might have imagined, it works very similar to Duolingo in that there is an evaluation process and tutorial in the beginning then "lessons/sessions" along the way that are designed to help you improve.

Been in it about a half hour and completed the evaluation and first two sessions. Full disclosure, I had LASIK back in November and therefore scored very well on the evaluation (I easily see 20/15 and have incredible contrast). The app said it could help me improve if I:

A) paid $9.99 to unlock their 4 step process immediately, or
B) work my way through the free sessions to unlock the 4 steps one at a time.

I'll work through the free sessions as I can see that there is likely some opportunity for improvement from this app - if nothing else, maybe reaction time and hand-eye coordination.
 
RunninInGA said:
As you might have imagined, it works very similar to Duolingo in that there is an evaluation process and tutorial in the beginning then "lessons/sessions" along the way that are designed to help you improve.

Been in it about a half hour and completed the evaluation and first two sessions. Full disclosure, I had LASIK back in November and therefore scored very well on the evaluation (I easily see 20/15 and have incredible contrast). The app said it could help me improve if I:

A) paid $9.99 to unlock their 4 step process immediately, or
B) work my way through the free sessions to unlock the 4 steps one at a time.

I'll work through the free sessions as I can see that there is likely some opportunity for improvement from this app - if nothing else, maybe reaction time and hand-eye coordination.
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Yes, I knew it would cost $60 or so for the full program. That's much cheaper than glasses though and if it even improved perception, recognition and clarity slightly it would be worth it.
 
1engineer said:
Yes, I knew it would cost $60 or so for the full program. That's much cheaper than glasses though and if it even improved perception, recognition and clarity slightly it would be worth it.
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I honestly think there could be some benefit from the app - I've only completed the first 2 sessions, but it trains your eyes/brain to read smaller and smaller and less focused letters over time. It works on a point system and you actually feel like you're playing a game. I'll keep messing with it over the course of the weekend and will update my thoughts as I go.
 
RunninInGA said:
I honestly think there could be some benefit from the app - I've only completed the first 2 sessions, but it trains your eyes/brain to read smaller and smaller and less focused letters over time. It works on a point system and you actually feel like you're playing a game. I'll keep messing with it over the course of the weekend and will update my thoughts as I go.
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Yeah it made sense to me. Being an engineer I knew that your eyes are only the lenses and the processor (brain) actually interpreted the image for recognition. So if the lenses get changed (old eyes) you see "blurry" because your brain remembers what a clear signal was an processes it as blurred. Changing the processor to convert blurred into clear makes sense...to me. Let me know because buying an iphone AND the program is even cheaper than glasses!
 
^Nope. Not for me. I love riding bikes....downhill, on trails, in the dirt, but on pavement? No thanks. Always seemed like a death wish to me.
 
-JD- said:
^Nope. Not for me. I love riding bikes....downhill, on trails, in the dirt, but on pavement? No thanks. Always seemed like a death wish to me.
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Agreed. Isle of Man really is an interesting race though. The elevation changes coupled with the left/right movement blows my mind. I've seen many videos of practice and race runs around the island and it continues to stupify me how anyone can pilot a bike at well over 100 mph with the front and rear wheels stepping out a couple inches with each hill crest. The margin for error is ridiculously large.
 
Buddy of mine who has an auto customizing shop did this...

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How Much Climate-Change Denial Can the Market Bear?

I generally like Forbes. The people there provide a good platform for high-quality content, and they have written many nice things about us.

I was therefore surprised to read this piece of garbage by John Tamny, which Forbes published this weekend. In response to my recently-aired story about Greenland’s melting glaciers, Tamny calls me a global-warming “alarmist” and asks if I will be seeking refuge from rising sea levels in Dallas, Texas.

Ironically, the front page of this morning’s New York Times features the prominent headline, “Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come.” A similar article in today’s Wall Street Journal is headlined, “Climate Change Impact Is Wide, UN Says. Scientists Call for Swift Action on Greenhouse Gas Emissions.”

They are both referring to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC’s report, released on Monday, was the result of the efforts of 309 scientists from 70 countries who drew on more than 12,000 research papers. In its own article, The Guardian called it “the most comprehensive picture of climate risks to date.”

Rajendra Pachauri, the panel’s chairman, said in a press conference that he hoped the IPCC’s report would “jolt people into action.” The report links climate change to a worldwide rise in wildfires, drought, and flooding.

“We are now in an era where climate change isn’t some kind of future hypothetical,” The Guardian quotes the report’s leading author, Chris Field, as saying. “We live in an area where impacts from climate change are already widespread and consequential.”

Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry issued a forceful statement in which he declared, “Unless we act dramatically and quickly, science tells us our climate and our way of life are literally in jeopardy. Denial of the science is malpractice.”

Tamny writes that his own “analysis” is “wholly free of science, as I’m not a scientist” — but not before he questions the impact of Greenland’s ice erosion on global sea levels by likening it, perplexingly, to an ice cube melting in a cup of water. He must have missed the publication of a report earlier this month in the journal Nature Climate Change that found a significant loss of ice in Greenland’s northeast, which was long thought to be stable.

“The Greenland ice sheet has been one of the largest contributors to global sea-level rise over the past 20 years,” the authors noted. They believe that projections of a global sea-level rise are underestimated because they have failed to account this surprising increase.

Rather than science, Tamny prefers “market signals” that he says “reflect a catastrophe-free future that supports the view of global-warming ‘deniers.’ ”

Did the markets predict Hurricane Katrina? ($125 billion in damages/costs)

Did they predict Hurricane Sandy? ($71 billion in damages/costs)

How about the Fukushima disaster? ($58 billion clean-up)

Typhoon Haiyan? (7,500 dead or missing and $12.5 billion in cleanup costs)

The drought in California? ($5 billion estimated loss in 2014 revenue alone)

No.

Market analysts anticipated none of these because their focus is the economy, NOT the environment. Those guys are looking to make money, while scientists are overwhelmingly in agreement that not only is global warming happening, but that the worst is yet to come.

That’s what makes Tamny’s piece particularly insidious, because he's not just sticking his head in the sand, which would be bad enough, but he is actually arguing that global warming is not happening because rich people are buying houses on the coast. He is using Forbes as a platform to spew nonsensical gibberish.

And what timing! The world is being called to action on climate change, and Forbes is denying that it is even happening. Why? Apparently because, according to Tamny, Warren Buffett said so.

(Actually, it appears Buffett’s views are more nuanced than Tamny would have you believe.)

In answer to your question, Mr. Tamny, I’ll not be moving to Texas — a state that suffered the worst drought in its history in 2011. Farmers there are likening conditions this year to the Dust Bowl.
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-JD- said:
How Much Climate-Change Denial Can the Market Bear?
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Give it a rest please. When I see you driving a Volt and have a windmill outside your house and you completely go off the grid then I will take your climate change posts seriously. If you guys want to lead then you had better lead by example instead of hyperbole or there will always be guys like me that take what you say with a grain of salt. Climate changes. Yes we can be better stewards of this planet but not your way of propaganda. Also let me know when your top guys sit down at the table with my guys and work out a plan. Remember, consensus is for politicians and proof is for science. If you had proof there would be total agreement.

Answer me one question: What is the IPCC chartered to do? Hopefully when you think about that and you know the answer you will realize the fallacy of your side's plans.
 
Give it a rest? You realize the implications of that statement if you are wrong?? That is your attitude towards science? You've already learned everything so give it a rest?

Drive a volt? Build a windmill? Or climate change isn't real? Whoa, am I talking to an engineer or a fox news correspondent? That was a very juvenile thing to say.

Do you have proof of this IPCC bias you seem to be hinting at?


Your posts are usually quick to provide a wealth of information to support your points but on this particular issue they have consisted more of vague denigration of me with replies like 'go buy a volt' or vague conspiracy theories about why the majority of the scientists and world governments are lieing about climate change instead of factual information or research.
 
-JD- said:
Give it a rest? You realize the implications of that statement if you are wrong?? That is your attitude towards science? You've already learned everything so give it a rest?

Drive a volt? Build a windmill? Or climate change isn't real? Whoa, am I talking to an engineer or a fox news correspondent? That was a very juvenile thing to say.

Do you have proof of this IPCC bias you seem to be hinting at?


Your posts are usually quick to provide a wealth of information to support your points but on this particular issue they have consisted more of vague denigration of me with replies like 'go buy a volt' or vague conspiracy theories about why the majority of the scientists and world governments are lieing about climate change instead of factual information or research.
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Yeah the Volt thing is over the top I admit. Sorry bad day.
 
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