Required Reading: Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

New medication could help you forget painful memories and Google wants to sell you a pair of glasses in today's Required Reading.

Google developing eyeglasses: If it seems like we at the Kaimin are a bit obsessed with Google, it's probably true. According to the Bits blog of the New York Times, Google is developing a set of glasses that will stream and display information in real time on the lenses. So now you don't have to dig in your pocket and fight with your keys to Google Gmail to open Google Docs to complete your homework. The glasses are supposed to be available later this year.

New York Times: "The glasses will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby, according to the Google employees. The glasses are not designed to be worn constantly — although Google expects some of the nerdiest users will wear them a lot — but will be more like smartphones, used when needed."

Nuclear investigators hit roadblock in Iran: Representatives from the United Nations agency that keeps tabs on nuclear weapon developments were barred from visiting military bases during a trip to Iran, Reuters reports. The group, the International Atomic Energy Agency, had gone to Tehran to investigate whether Iran has been building nuclear weapons. When it requested to be allowed to examine a base, it was denied entry by Iranian officials.

A pill to forget: We all have those memories. The ones that nip you in the back of your brain, and all you want is that flash from Men in Black. A solution may not be that easy, but research in the field of memory has found that haunted thoughts are due to a handful of chemicals, and there may be a pill that can wipe them all away. This feature from Wired is a bit of a doozy, but "The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever" is worth the read.