Activities For The Blind | Blindness News for 12/31/2009



Abdurrahman Wahid, 69, Is Dead; Led Indonesia for 2 Years of Tumult (New York Times)
Mr. Wahid was an eccentric, nearly blind Muslim cleric who served as Indonesias president, championing a tolerant brand of Islam...

Egyptian Med Students Believe Masturbation Causes Blindness .
When a country's doctors-to-be believe masturbating will destroy your eyesight or cause sterility, what hope is there for the rest of the population? Let's talk about sex, baby. Because when sex is. read more of this post, ...

Garden egg as solution to obesity, blindness (Ghanaweb.com)
Garden egg Garden egg (Solanum melongena) is the fruit in season and for its lovers having steamed yam and stew made with garden egg is a delight. The benefits of eating garden eggs however extend far beyond ensuring that ones desire for a good breakfast is satisfied...

Willful Blindness EUR by Jamie Glazov | FrontPage Magazine
The Obama administration's refusal to accept what's causing Muslims to terrorize us...

Schneier on Security: Change Blindness
Change Blindness. Interesting video demonstrating change blindness: the human brain's tendency to ignore major visual changes. The implications for security are pretty serious. Posted on December 29, 2009 at 6:34 AM EUR 22 Comments ...

Peek into world of visual impairment (Omaha World-Herald)
A Seeing Eye member speaks at the Childrens Museum about blindness and guide dogs...

Ralph Peters: Our Blindness to Islam Ties Helps Terrorists .
Ralph Peters writes that by failing to connect Islamist terrorism to Islam, we're lying to ourselves, and points to Barack Obama's failure yesterday to connect the terrorist act by the Christmas jihadist, the date - Christmas, ...

Rick's Caf American: Love of the Land: Blindness in Cairo
Blindness in Cairo. Yaacov Lozowick Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations 29 December 09. The story of the 1300 demonstrators stuck in Cairo continues not to attract much attention. The Guardian, generally exuberant in seeking vehicles to cast ...

Experimental Psychology - Change Blindness - News - All the .
Crime, Intelligence, Terrorism, Drugs, Technology, Defense, Security & Foreign Affairs...

Listening to Braille (New York Times)
Innovative technologies have made bumps on paper seem outdated. But are blind people losing more than they gain?..

OpEdNews - Article: This Blindness Can Be Cured
Please, people, this is no conspiracy theory. This isn't 9/11 truthers or birthers or Kennedy assassination investigators or alien invasion followers. I'm not judging those. Those may or may not be real...

Quit: Smoking Causes Blindness | Creative Criminals
This ambient ad want to make people aware that smoking can actually cause progressive vision problems and may eventually lead to blindness. They make people...

End 2009 with a bang: Double-wield grenade launchers and wreak havoc in a New Year Minigore episode (Geek.com)
Chillingo has released a new episode of its top-selling survival shooter Minigore (review) EUR just in time for New Year. Minigore version 1.25 surfaced on the App Store a few hours ago as a free update for those who have purchased the game. The fourth episode is titled Minigore Episode 3.5: New Year and arrives on the [.]..

Smoking increases age-related macular degeneration, finds UCLA study (News-Medical-Net)
Just in time for New Year's resolutions, a UCLA study finds that even after age 80, smoking continues to increase one's risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 65...

It's never too late to quit smoking and save your vision (Science Daily)
Need a little extra incentive to kick the habit? Just in time for New Year's resolutions, a new study finds that even after age 80, smoking continues to increase one's risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 65. The American Journal of Ophthalmology publishes the findings in its January edition...

Breaking through American blindness over Gaza Antony Loewenstein
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Change blindness experiment Boing Boing
Dinotopia artist James Gurney posted this video about a "change blindness" experiment. 75% of the participants didn't notice that the experimenter who bent under a counter was replaced by a different person. Says Gurney: "Here's proof ...

It's never too late to quit smoking and save your vision (EurekAlert!)
( University of California - Los Angeles ) Need a little extra incentive to kick the habit?Just in time for New Year's resolutions, a UCLA study finds that even after age 80, smoking continues to increase one's risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 65. The American Journal of Ophthalmology publishes the findings in its January edition...

It's never too late to quit smoking and save your vision (PhysOrg)
Need a little extra incentive to kick the habit? Just in time for New Year's resolutions, a UCLA study finds that even after age 80, smoking continues to increase one's risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 65...

Reality Knocks (New York Times)
When a TV show comes calling, the disrepair can no longer be ignored...



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