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You are aware that the "carrots help you see in the dark" thing was a lie the Brits told to try to cover the fact that they had radar? As far as I'm aware there's zero evidence whatsoever that carrots or any nutrient in them does a damned thing for your eyes.

Carrots don't help you see in the dark, but they can prevent you going blind

http://www.blindness.org/index...
http://www.goldenrice.org/Cont...

That's why I masturbate using carrots. Don't want to go blind!

You are aware that the "carrots help you see in the dark" thing was a lie the Brits told to try to cover the fact that they had radar? As far as I'm aware there's zero evidence whatsoever that carrots or any nutrient in them does a damned thing for your eyes.

Carrots don't help you see in the dark, but they can prevent you going blind

http://www.blindness.org/index...
http://www.goldenrice.org/Cont...

A quick google search proves this to be the case:
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&clien t=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=retin al+pigmentosa+blindness&spell=1/) Two seconds of google to check up on it, SimianOverlord. Another three seconds to actually read the google results. Is that so difficult?

Way back in the mists of history -- figure the mid-'90s, give or take an IPO or two -- I used to do some odd bits of print design for a blindness-related non-profit here on the East Coast. One day, when conversation turned to the org's web presence, they mentioned how they had been quite deliberate in "oversizing" everything on their site to cater to users with failing eyesight -- mostly the elderly, as it turns out. Taking a look at the site today, it appears that not much has changed, so I guess the philosophy must still be working for them.

Mind you, this was a destination with an already assumed audience of seniors/others with vision problems. Should the same thinking be carried over to a more general-interest site that caters largely to a 50+ demographic (wine, opera, public radio/TV)?* Sure. Perhaps in not so drastic a manner as that first example, but hey, it never hurts to remember that those users most likely to need oversized type/graphics -- seniors -- are also the ones are least likely to understand client-side fixes like text-zoom and adjusting monitor resolution.*

My best guess is that some clearly marked CSS controls on the page might be the best compromise between wanting a clean, elegant design and offering maximum readability to users. Worth thinking about, at least...

*This and all other groundless generalizations in this post are the property of the Poster. And Major League Baseball.

This just goes to prove a pet peeve of mine: not even quasi-scientific journalists can write a decent headline!

Title of actual article:

"Vision Researcher First to Implant an Artificial Retina in Humans"

I mean, c'mon: it's an artificial RETINA. It's a darn good thing it was a VISION researcher that did it first; just imagine the poor patients if a cutting-edge proctologist had done the implantation - no telling how THAT would "come out in the end" (proctology humor, sorry). And it's not even like the article is on some generic news site where they need to be extra-specific just to pander to the LCD (that's Lowest Common Denominator, not Liquid... oh nevermind). It's on blindness.org for cryin' out loud! I highly doubt they run a lot of stories about podiatry or stomach ulcer research...

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