re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

Saddest part of that story for me:

“Nearly 23% of girls dropout of school in India. For those who stay, India’s 120 million school-age girls miss an average of six days a month due to lack of sanitary facilities to manage menstruation.”

Which is why this guy, Arunachalam Muruganantham, is kind of a crazy personal hero for me. He reverse-engineered the sanitary pad and figured out a way to make a machine to make them cheaper so they could be produced by women’s co-ops.

I say “crazy,” because how many guys are going to do what he did to try and figure out how sanitary napkins work?

nytimes.com