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Original Technorati articles tagged “blindness”

• in Gadgets
  Blind Children Use iPads Successfully
  Visually impaired children are able to interact with Apple's Ipad opening up a new world.
  by evilwife / on Oct 20, 2011
• in Videos
  Blind Photographer Captures Life as He Sees It
  Blind photographer captures life
  by sageone73 / on Feb 8, 2011
• in Videos
  Bart, The Blind Mechanic
  Bart Hickey is a successful blind mechanic.
  by sageone73 / on Jan 23, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “blindness”

 

• Recap: The Austin Blind Cafe Presents A Unique Dine In The Dark Experience

  
  Ask Miss A — Authority: 431
  The Blind CaféTM returned to Austin for its third consecutive year on January 26th – 28th.  For three nights, guests could tap into their curiosity and learn about blindness and sensory deprivation.  It was an eye opening experience for many as they participated in a community style dinner, a Q & A with their ...
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• Quick Doodles 100 and 101 by Frank Allen

  
  Franks Daily Doodle — Authority: 122
  Doodle 100 by Frank Allen Doodle 200 by Frank Allen Quick Doodles 100 and 101 by Frank Allen
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• Groundbreaking Advance In Stem Cells Confirmed

  
  School of Being Healthy — Authority: 99
  According to a study published by The Lancet on Monday, the first use of embryonic stem cells in humans eased a degenerative form of blindness in two volunteers and showed no signs of any adverse effects. The results of the cautious first-stage test that was designed to examine whether the treatment is ...
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• Researchers Develop Gene Therapy That Could Correct A Common Form Of Blindness

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  A new gene therapy method developed by University of Florida researchers has the potential to treat a common form of blindness that strikes both youngsters and adults. The technique works by replacing a malfunctioning gene in the eye with a normal working copy that supplies a protein necessary for light-sensitive ...
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• Retinitis Pigmentosa In Dogs Cured By Gene Therapy

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  Members of a University of Pennsylvania research team have shown that they can prevent, or even reverse, a blinding retinal disease, X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa, or XLRP, in dogs. The disease in humans and dogs is caused by defects in the RPGR gene and results in early, severe and progressive vision loss. It is one ...
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• Living With a Blind Dog

  
  Dog'sHealth.com — Authority: 92
  Living with a blind dog can be a difficult but rewarding experience. No matter how concerned you are when your pet is diagnosed as blind or with seriously impaired vision, your dog’s blindness is going to be much harder on you than it is for your dog. Are you the owner of a dog that has recently become blind, ...
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• Invention Makes Children Eye Exams Inexpensive, Comprehensive, And Simple To Administer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  Eighty-five percent of childrens learning is related to vision. Yet in the U.S., 80 percent of children have never had an eye exam or any vision screening before kindergarten, statistics say. When they do, the vision screenings they typically receive can detect only one or two conditions. Three researchers at the ...
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• Extended Pain Relief For Laser Eye Surgery Patients Via Contact Lenses

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  Scientists are reporting development of contact lenses that could provide a continuous supply of anesthetic medication to the eyes of patients who undergo laser eye surgery - an advance that could relieve patients of the burden of repeatedly placing drops of medicine into their eyes every few hours for several days. ...
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• Memoirs Part 3 - Candia McWilliam

  
  Eloise Grey Ethical Fashion Business Blog — Authority: 89
  My next book of memoirs is the harrowingly beautiful, What To Look For In Winter, A Memoir in Blindness , by Candia McWilliam. It kept coming up as a recommendation on Amazon, not that I ever take notice, this time it seemed to haunt me each of the many times it appeared. A writers book about loss, blindness, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Online colour challenge

  
  Thing of the Day — Authority: 107
  According to the NHS, about 1 in 12 men have a colour vision defficiency. The figure is about 1 in 100 for women. Here’s a site that challenges you to arrange colours in their order of  hue. This particular male contributor to TOTD scored 76 (towards the low end of colour acuity). What score do you get? ...
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• How to Respond to Student Evaluations

  
  Sense and Function | Politics, Philosophy, Art, Media, Environment, and Economics — Authority: 100
  A word of warning to starting teachers: your first evaluations will usually surprise and disappoint you. Students will reflect back to you a picture of your strengths and weaknesses that you didnt have of yourself. For example, I think I will always fall short of what I really wanted to achieve. But, simultaneously, I ...
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• WHAT GORILLA? – The Power and Peril of Focus

  
  One Man's Wonder — Authority: 98
  Imagine someone holding up an item, something very large and very tangible, right in front of your eyes. Can you imagine any way they could do it so you wouldn’t even notice it? This is the sort of challenge put to me and other viewers of a TV news magazine segment some years ago. Hey, I thought, I’m a really ...
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• Toolmaker Talk: Eric Gradman (Facelogger)

  
  Quantified Self — Authority: 453
  This is the eight post in the “Toolmaker Talks” series. The QS blog features intrepid self-quantifiers and their stories: what did they do? how did they do it? and what have they learned?  In Toolmaker Talks we hear from QS enablers, those observing this QS activity and developing self-quantifying tools: what ...
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• Sleepless In California

  
  William Elliott A Life With Blindness — Authority: 104
  Is it the stress of planning a class paper? Is it the stress of starting a book club? Id it jusst blindness induced insomnia? It is hard to tell what is causing the lack of an ability to sleep these days. I can generally sleep for two or three hours. Early darkness means that my most sleepy periods tend to be around ...
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• Vitamin D Could Help Combat The Effects Of Aging In Eyes

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have found that vitamin D reduces the effects of ageing in mouse eyes and improves the vision of older mice significantly. The researchers hope that this might mean that vitamin D supplements could provide a simple and effective ...
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• You choose better to be too fat or starving?

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 149
  http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm Children are the most visible victims of undernutrition.  Children who are poorly nourished suffer up to 160 days of illness each year. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of the 10.9 million child deaths each year–five million ...
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• Cultural Nihilism: NYC Rooftop Bars

  
  Sense and Function | Politics, Philosophy, Art, Media, Environment, and Economics — Authority: 100
  In the morning I have been looking at news before I startwork, and I found this quotation in an article on rooftop bars in New York, which is both funny and terrifying, for exactly the same reason. Actually you have to laugh to fend off the crushing taste of nihilistic melancholy. The writer is reviewing rooftop ...
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• Mondays scary moment

  
  Torizworld — Authority: 411
  I stopped at the edge of the curb and shifted my cane in to the position it belongs in while I wait to cross a road. There was no sign of any traffic, but still I didnt cross; something was holding me back. A shiver ran down my spine, and I couldnt decide if it was due to the bitter wind that was biting in to my ...
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• Pay attention! Serious accidents triple for pedestrians wearing headphones

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 149
  Worrying: Serious accidents involving pedestrians wearing headphones while using electronic devices have tripled. Pictured is Robbie Williams listening to music while out on a stroll Serious accidents involving pedestrians wearing headphones while using electronic devices such as iPods have tripled, warn researchers. ...
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• Watch out, headphone may cost your life

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  London, Jan 17 (IANS) Researchers have found a dramatic rise in injuries to people using headphones while walking on the streets and have warned of serious accidents involving pedestrians using electronic devices, such as iPods and mobile phones.There is rising concern about the near trance-like state people can ...
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