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Short-sightedness, eye tests and spectacles in Japan, pt.1

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Uploaded by on Mar 12, 2007

JAPAN THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS explores the mysterious context to this film. It can be found at http://tinyurl.com/2pjyxu
The film was made by Windfall Films. Please see www.alanmacfarlane.com under 'Global History' for details and other films.

All revenues donated to World Oral Literature Project

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  • Thanks - but as I mentioned in response to part 2, I can't remember him mentioning genetic differences, but laid his stress on eye-strain along your lines and as we published in 'The Glass Bathyscaphe'. Alan

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  • very interesting video. thanks for posting.

  • Interesting link between long-sightedness and scientific revolution. However, as I see it, meyopia could also have been benefitial for science, because scientific query does not only rely on long distance observation (telescopes), but also on short distance observation (microscopes).

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  • Science and self-induced negative status. It was Johann Kepler (who did 15 years of close-work) who recognized this problem of natural adaption of the eye to long-term near. He developed the "box-camera" theory you see today. But he also recognized that his "academic work" created a negative state -- in the first place. Nothing has changed since then.

  • @sk9utube say whaaaaaaaat

  • @JasOmega too bad insultmongerDOTcom is defunct. I wish I remember what I really wrote in Japanese. Damn gooks should leave the whales and dolphins alone.

  • @sk9utube Ching Chang Walla Walla Bing Bang

  • A very good discussion. It is very easy to "quick fix" a child with a minus. Getting a child (and parent) interested in PREVENTION with a plus -- is almost impossible. It is tragic that the issue is not discussed here.

  • Hhayaku inaku nareyo. Mocca-mocca su su Ama. Kocha koi.

  • fuck you

  • I somehow wonder if part of the reason the Japanese could not win World War II with America was because of this problem. They probably couldn't produce a sniper who could shoot worth a shit.

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