The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex And Other True Stories (2012)
“Sex and Other True Stories How to Make (Almost) Anything In 2000, Saul Griffith—then a grad student in the MIT Media Lab—traveled to Guyana as a volunteer. Working with a retired optometrist, also a volunteer, he handed out recycled eyeglasses to people who would otherwise have none. The glasses had been collected in donation bins by a do-gooder organization in the United States and refurbished by prisoners. This, unfortunately, is still the state-of-the-art method for delivering eyeglasses to ...poor people in remote villages.
“It was terribly depressing,” Griffith says. He remembers particularly the young road-crew worker who came to him one day. The fellow had waited a long time for glasses; a line of about two hundred people stretched out from the door of the community center, people patiently shifting from foot to foot near gutters clogged with water lilies. The guy had terrible vision, though otherwise he was the picture of health, a handsome charmer, in fact. Griffith searched through boxes for something that would address the man’s nearsightedness and astigmatism, and he found just one pair that would work: pink cat-eyes with rhinestones at the tips.MoreLess
“It was terribly depressing,” Griffith says. He remembers particularly the young road-crew worker who came to him one day. The fellow had waited a long time for glasses; a line of about two hundred people stretched out from the door of the community center, people patiently shifting from foot to foot near gutters clogged with water lilies. The guy had terrible vision, though otherwise he was the picture of health, a handsome charmer, in fact. Griffith searched through boxes for something that would address the man’s nearsightedness and astigmatism, and he found just one pair that would work: pink cat-eyes with rhinestones at the tips.MoreLess
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