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WATCH: You've Never Seen Baseball Played Like This

HooplaHa | Posted 05.17.2013 | Sports
Read More: Blind, Visually Impaired, Sports, Long Island Bombers, Baseball, Inspiration, Blindness, Video, Blind Baseball Team, Blind Baseball, Sports News
HooplaHa

With baseball season starting up everyone is bringing out their bats and gloves, especially The Long Island Bombers. The Bombers are a group of baseball enthusiasts and athletes from New York, that just happen to be blind and visually impaired.

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Poisoning the Treaty for the Blind

Jim Fruchterman | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics
Read More: WIPO Treaty for the Blind, Education, Wipo, Dyslexia, STEM Education, Blindness, Copyright, Disabilities, Mpaa, Copyright Law, Disability, Politics News
Jim Fruchterman

In the MPAA's "balanced" world, a system that works well in the United States -- and helps hundreds of thousands of people -- should be advocated against by our trade delegation? Huh?

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Featured 50 Fiction: My Blindness Is Its Own Reward

Rich Seeley | Posted 04.29.2013 | Fifty
Read More: La, Los Angeles, Blindness, Short Story, 50fiction, Featured Fifty Fiction, post50, Fifty News
Rich Seeley

I have made my bed in darkness -- Job 17:13 Nobody here is from here. That is what I like about LA. It is a good place to be anonymous. You can live ...

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The Eye of the Beholder: Why Fighting Trachoma Matters

Dr. Paul Emerson | Posted 04.17.2013 | Impact
Read More: Trachoma, Carter Center, Developing World, Trichiasis, Trachoma Prevention, Blindness, Disease, Sanitation, Impact News
Dr. Paul Emerson

Neglected diseases like trachoma may not be as well known as HIV/AIDS or malaria, but they also are not as far removed from the developed world as we think.

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What Is It Like To Be Deafblind?

Quora | Posted 04.11.2013 | Home
Read More: Deafblind, Deafness, Disabilities, Blindness, Deaf, Home News
Quora

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Cristina Hartmann, Writer I'll tell you about what it's like to lose your sight as...

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World's Tiniest Telescope Treats Blindness

Barbara Dehn | Posted 04.05.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Implanatable Telescope, Blindness, Hearing Loss, Medical Advances, High-Tech Medical Devices, Macular Degeneration, Health, Age Related Macular Degeneration Symptoms, Amd, Medical Devices, Slideexpand, Vision Loss, Age Related Macular Degeneration, Cochlear Implants, Visioncare Centrasight Technology, Healthy Living News
Barbara Dehn

Thanks to technological advances in microsurgery and space-age breakthroughs, people like James Hindman with Age-related Macular Degeneration have new hope from the world's tiniest telescope that's implanted into the person's eye.

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Video Game Helps The Blind Navigate Buildings

Reuters | Posted 04.01.2013 | Technology
Read More: Influencers-and-Innovation, Video Game Blind, Blindness, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Smarter Ideas, Blind, Blind People, Disabilities, Reuters, Disability, Gaming, Video Games, Massachusetts, Harvard Medical School, Technology News

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A video game that uses a computer-generated layout of a building can help to prepare the blind ...

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The Unseen Bean: Roasting Coffee in the Dark

Dark Rye | Posted 05.25.2013 | Taste
Read More: Malawi, Small Business, Whole Foods, Coffee Shops, Blindness, Mentoring, Gerry Leary, Boulder, Coffee, Colorado, Boulder News, Labrador, Recipes, Dark Rye, Boulder Colorado, Beans, San Francisco, Dogs, The Unseen Bean, Taste News
Dark Rye

When you lose the use of one sense, the others become heightened. That's certainly true for Gerry Leary of Boulder, Colorado. Leary has been blind since birth, yet he operates a successful coffee roasting business and a café near Boulder's main pedestrian mall, Pearl Street.

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Freaky Implant Lets Animals 'See' With Their Tails

Posted 02.28.2013 | Science
Read More: Tadpole Eyes, Sensory Disorders, Video, Daily Discovery, Treating Blindness, Blindness, Weird Science, Tadpole Tails, Tadpole Sight, Artificial Implants, Eye Implants, Bioloy, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 02/27/2013 06:06 PM EST on LiveScience Eyes hooked up to the tail can help blinded tadpoles s...

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Vision for the Blind: New Technologies Offer 'Second Sight'

Ben Thomas | Posted 04.29.2013 | Science
Read More: Vision, Eyesight, Braille, Neuroscience, Brain, Blindness, Augmented Reality, Science, Brain Science, Prosthetics, Technology, News, Science News
Ben Thomas

Ever since the patient's stroke, she'd been living in impenetrable darkness; tormented by memories of shapes and faces and letters, but powerless to perceive them in the world around her.

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Seeing Sound and Touching Data: How New Senses Will Expand Your World

Ben Thomas | Posted 04.24.2013 | Science
Read More: Google Glass, Vision, Blindness, Mobile Phones, Smartphones, Touchscreen, Science, Brain Science, Touchscreens, Smart Phone, Vision Impairment, Sound, Sight, Smartphone, Telephone, Touch Screen, Neuroscience, Mobile Phone, Echolocation, Technology, Senses, Erik Weihenmayer, Science News
Ben Thomas

When I think back to the landlines and card catalogues of the 1950s, I'm amazed that people managed to work and think so efficiently under those constraints. What, then, will our grandchildren think of our touch screens and wireless networks - and with what senses will they look back?

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Bionic Eyes and Science's Big Step Forward

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.20.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Inventions, Medicine, Health, Bionic Eye, Science News, Sight, Argus Ii, Blindness, Healthy Living News
Howard Steven Friedman

This past week, the FDA approved the Argus Retinal Prosthesis System ("Argus II"), a medical device that is truly a major step forward.

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Documentary Envisions What the Blind Can Teach the Sighted About Truly Seeing

Perry Garfinkel | Posted 03.31.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Blindness, Perkins School for the Blind, Three Days to See, Blindness Documentary, Garrett Zevgetis, Three Days to See Film, Garrett Zevgetis Film, Blind Population Employment, Healthy Living News
Perry Garfinkel

Garrett Zevgetis met a young woman around whom he felt a dramatic narrative could be built to tell a story about something more than beauty -- something about facing fear, facing down fear and finally of overcoming whatever obstacles life hurls at us.

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Things That Drive Me Up The Wall

Laverne H. Bardy | Posted 03.20.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Baldness, Television Commercials, Masochistic, Blindness, Ritalin, Valium, Batteries, Drug Ads, Annoying Ads, Slideshow, Livebetteramerica-Well-Being, Fifty News
Laverne H. Bardy

I never cease to be amazed by some of the things I read, hear and observe. Television commercials in particular cause me to scratch my head and ponder. It boggles my mind to realize that before these are released to the public they're actually approved by an infinite number of people.

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WATCH: How Blind People Use Instagram

Posted 01.04.2013 | Technology
Read More: Instagram, Social Media, Video, Blind Film Critic Instagram, Tommy Edison Blind, Blind Instagram, Inspiration, How Blind People Use Instagram, Blindness, Tommy Edison Blind Film Critic, Tommy Edison, Tommy Edison Youtube, Youtube, Blind Film Critic, Technology News

Tommy Edison, described by Gizmodo as the "positively radiant blind film critic," has created a YouTube clip, in which he describes his experience wit...

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Blind Filmmaker's Amazing Story Will Open Your Eyes

HooplaHa | Posted 02.12.2013 | Good News
Read More: Overcoming Obstacles, Disability, Film, Blindness, Video, Joseph Lovett Documentary, Glaucoma, Going Blind, Vision Going Blind, Joseph Lovett Going Blind, Going Blind Documentary, Good News News
HooplaHa

When faced with an obstacle as severe as vision loss most would throw up their hands and accept their newfound misfortune. Some refuse to give in.

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Erik Weihenmayer: Redefining Limits

SnagFilms | Posted 02.11.2013 | Sports
Read More: Snagfilms, Kayaking, Blindness, Mountain Climbing, Mount Everest, Erik Weihenmayer, Impact-Sports, Sports News
SnagFilms

Erik Weihenmayer is a man whose ambition, drive, and performance reject any notion of disability. He is one of the world's most adventurous people, as he is a blind skier, runner, biker, skydiver and climber.

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How Do Blind People Count Cash?

AP | JOSH LEDERMAN | Posted 10.09.2012 | Home
Read More: Blind, Blindness, Cash, Counting Money, Home News

WASHINGTON -- A new, government-funded cellphone app will help the blind and those with visual impairments count their cash. Those with Android devic...

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Blind Scientist Explains How Sightless 'See' Reality

Posted 10.03.2012 | Science
Read More: Neuroscience, Video, Colorblind, Brain, Blindness, Blind People, Health, How Do Blind People See Reality, Science, Echolocation, Science News, Science News

By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 10/03/2012 12:31 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries Paul Gabias has never seen a table. He was born prematurely an...

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Two New Books Testify to the Power of Music

Alan Elsner | Posted 11.21.2012 | Books
Read More: Classical Music, Cultural Revolution, Blindness, Oberlin College, Opera, Yale University, Mao Zedong, Bach, China, Books News
Alan Elsner

Two new books share an important attribute -- an unshakable belief that Bach, Mozart and Schubert elevate the human spirit and have the power to comfort us, to inspire us and to overcome even the greatest challenges.

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Obama Proved Right -- Again! -- on Stem Cell Research

Don C. Reed | Posted 11.17.2012 | Politics
Read More: Stem Cell Research, Romney, Deafness, Blindness, Barack Obama, Paralysis, Obama Stem Cell Research, Disability Rights, Disability, Politics News
Don C. Reed

I want to know where the candidates stand on issues of such vital importance as research to cure disease and disability -- and I am not reassured by the "just trust us" attitude of the Romney/Ryan ticket.

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Blind Girl Denied Use Of Cane; Museum Says It Was A Misunderstanding

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 09.03.2012 | Parents
Read More: Hunter-Spanjer, Blind, Video, Children With Disabilities, Abby Duffy, Blindness, Children-With-Disabilities, Penny Duffy, Deaf Children, Disabled Children, Blind-Children, Parents News

A museum in New Hampshire has apologized for refusing to allow an 8-year-old blind girl named Abby Duffy to use her white cane inside the museum, WMU...

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Resources to Help Seniors With Low Vision

Jim T. Miller | Posted 10.26.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Low Vision, Macular Degeneration, Blindness, Eye Problems, Age Related Macular Degeneration, Vision Problems, Health Post50, Slideexpand, Fifty News
Jim T. Miller

Unfortunately, there are nearly 2 million Americans, like your wife, living with macular degeneration today, making everyday tasks like cooking dinner, reading the newspaper or watching television extremely challenging. Here are some resources that can help.

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The Image of Vision

Bessie A. Winn-Afeku | Posted 10.16.2012 | Impact
Read More: Photography, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Social Change, Inspiration, Blindness, Impact, Video, Impact News
Bessie A. Winn-Afeku

Tunnel vision. It's a term that we throw around to express either how focused we are on a project or when a person only sees something from their point of view. Meet Jamellia, who has a condition called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes her to experience tunnel vision.

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Not All Students Are Treated Equally in Today's Digital Era: A Call for Accessible Technology in Higher Education

Sean Devine | Posted 10.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Florida State, Nyu, Penn State, Classroom Technology, Blindness, College Classes, Technology and Education, Technology, Visual Impairments, Northwestern, College Lawsuit, Home News
Sean Devine

Together, we can ensure that no student is left behind as a result of his or her print-related disability as we continue our path in the digital revolution of higher education.

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