Why Would You Look At a Laser Anyway?

And…we are back from our summer breaks, which means we’re back to our good ol’ full-length episodes.  This week we are digging into state-of-the-art refractive surgery: in just the past 150 years, we have gone from assessing your visual acuity using mustard seeds to shooting lasers into your eyes to reshape them.  Ain’t science great?!

The most common of these procedures, commonly called LASIK, can be performed in less than twenty minutes using two different lasers to first access, then reshape, your eyeball(s).  Not only do you recover overnight, but you’ll have greatly improved eyesight the next day.  Fortunately for you, cj was kind enough to volunteer his “bad eye” for LASIK just to be able to tell y’all how it went.  Now if that is not podcast host commitment, then we don’t know what is! 

But before getting knee-deep into eyeballs and lasers, we’ve got (yet another!) new coronavirus variant (hooray!), a crashed moon lander (boo!), a bunch of wiped-out “legacy” tweets (yay?), and companies like Facebook & Amazon applying more pressure to return to the office (double boo!).

If you are thinking about having a LASIK procedure, then this is an episode you are not going to want to skip!

CARROT Weather for iOS and Android

Which arm gets the Covid-19 booster may make a difference, study shows

Russian astronomer who was advisor to Putin's disastrous Luna-25 mission to the Moon is rushed to hospital after unmanned spacecraft CRASHED

India is the first country to land at the Moon's south pole

Elon Musk admits X ‘may fail’ after glitch deletes Twitter photos

X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014

Tesla says data breach impacting 75,000 employees was an insider job

Meta threatens to fire workers for return-to-office infractions in leaked memo

Meta employees who flout new return-to-office mandate face termination

Mark Zuckerberg’s new ‘in-person time policy’ will crack down on Meta’s remote work rebels

Amazon relies on ‘serendipity’ for office return; employees want data

Funniest Cat Videos 2023

How Julio Urías, who once struggled to see, became Dodgers' ace

What Does it Mean to Have 20/20 Vision? - Healthcare Trends

Refractive surgery - Wikiwand

SYNOPSIS OF MEDICAL STANDARDS - Applies to SPECIFIC Class of Medical Certificate

Driving Restrictions per State - EyeWiki

Excimer laser - Wikiwand

Astigmatism - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic

LASIK - Wikiwand

Femtosecond Lasers and Laser Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK)