28 posts tagged colorblindness

A White person may benefit from fighting White privilege, because if she accepts the existence of White privilege, she will develop a healthier self-esteem. High self-esteem is not always healthy self-esteem. High self-esteem is not the same thing as healthy self-esteem, according to psychology research from the University of Georgia.

"Do you freak out if someone asks you to match print colors to Web colors? Or, maybe you just can’t decide whether the orange would work better with the blue or the green. Either way, many designers may not realize how easy it is to choose a palette for that new Web design.

The Color of Violence- Trask’s concept of “peaceful violence” and the tenure case of Prof. Andrea Smith I really want to address Prof. Andrea Smith’s (author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide) tenure case at the University of Michigan because this is a prime example of

For Mother's Day, here's a section of my in-progress memoir about my father's death and my mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis: Two years before Dad died, Mom joined Toastmasters. Mom had never been that comfortable talking in front of people. She and Dad socialized a lot, but Dad was the talker; she was more comfortable listening.

WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING? You don’t know, do you? According to a recent MTSU poll, nearly 60% of undergraduates haven’t seen the original three Superman movies. 40% of those laugh at crippled Christopher Reeve jokes, without knowing why. 34% have not seen Ghostbusters, but admit to saying “Ghostbusters!” when asked who they are going to call.

I apologize because I am too tired and too lazy to write something up for you. I tried as hard as I can to think of something to write but I guess nothing gets in. I am just too tired to do anything. So why am I writing this? I am just waiting for my nifty Perl script to do its magic since I am working at home for tonight.

Web Color Clash Add a comment (0) Posted by WebGyver on 04/28/08 Some colors just don’t work well with other colors. It might just be me and my old age and the fact that I’m male, but there’s something very disturbing about the new “orange links on green background” in Monster.com’s newly re-designed HTML e-mail for job search results.

Is your child color-blind? Color blindness can be tested for once your little one turns four years old. Color blindness is fairly rare, affecting only about 8-12% of the population. However, if your child is color-blind it can affect his learning process, and you’ll likely see these signs: Your child is male.

This week in class, I laughed quietly to myself at one point during the lecture. People around me assumed I was not paying attention and watching funny youtube videos or something, but in reality the lecture reminded me of a funny story. Zack was a linebacker on my high school football team.

As a color-blind gamer, I can't recall having many eye-rubbing hangups over which side to attack, who was friend or who was foe. You don't need colors to tell the opposite side in a game like Star Wars: Battlefront, for example, and the only way to miss red versus blue in Halo would be to lack all color vision.