Glasses

Everyone in my immediate family wears glasses of one sort or another. Dad and Rebecca wear permanent glasses, Mum wears reading glasses for close-up work, and I have a pair that I use when I want to see something in the distance.

I’m slightly short-sighted. I find glasses useful when watching television, scanning items on a supermarket shelf, reading a menu on a restaurant wall, watching a performance on stage, admiring a beautiful view, and other things like that. But I’ve had them for a few years now and they still give me a mild headache if I leave them on for too long, so I only wear them when necessary. If I’m watching television, for example, they come off in the commercials.

More on Pluto

In an earlier post, I talked about the reclassification of Pluto from a scientific perspective, and finished by saying that I’d left plenty of material for a possible follow-up. I had intended to have got back to that by now but I got distracted on other topics. This post looks at some of my views on some of the cultural, rather than scientific, issues.