Here’s a fascinating nugget from the New England Journal of Medicine:
Surgeons also discovered a dismayingly high incidence of blinding injuries. Soldiers had been directed to wear eye protection, but they evidently found the issued goggles too ugly. As some soldiers put it, ‘They look like something a Florida senior citizen would wear.’ So the military bowed to fashion and switched to cooler-looking Wiley-brand ballistic eyewear. The rate of eye injuries has since decreased markedly.
Virginia Postrel, call your office.
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