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Blindness
Nov 10, 2009
Huffington Post:
We are in the process of constructing a new myth: that of the "fall-of-the-wall-that-no one-predicted."Because finally...That no one knew the exact moment it would happen, yes, of course.That the playing out of the episode it (Read More)
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Working With Multi Handicapped Individuals
Huffington Post:
A small but provocative study showed that a form of gene therapy significantly improved the vision of patients left legally blind by a rare genetic eye disease. The benefit was especially striking among children. (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Over the last few weeks, I've had the feeling that I'm living through an episode of the Twilight Zone. We've now seen innumerable articles about Roman Polanski and how he's being mistreated for drugging and raping a 13-year- (Read More)
News Network:
Working With Multi Handicapped Individuals
Huffington Post:
TUCSON, Arizona - Cocooned in our delusional state of exception, we Americans have achieved what eludes only the scariest of despotic states: We have obliterated truth. When reality bites, we defang it. We stretch our most ba (Read More)
New York Times:
Appearing on “Meet the Press,” Gov. David A. Paterson used his blindness as a political metaphor, saying that he had “spent a whole life being told I couldn’t do things.”
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New York Times:
Appearing on “Meet the Press,” Gov. David A. Paterson used his blindness as a political metaphor, saying that he had “spent a whole life being told I couldn’t do things.”
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Huffington Post:
Scientists involved in the project, the artificial retina, say they have plans to develop the technology to allow people to read, write and recognize faces.Advances in technology, genetics, brain science and biology are makin (Read More)
New York Times:
Research based on advances in technology and biology is raising hopes for progress on one of science’s holy grails.
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New York Times:
No longer just guides to the blind, service dogs now helping people with many disabilities, but a well-trained dog can be a heavy cost.
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Huffington Post:
NEW YORK — A self-employed graphic designer methodically killed at least four of his girlfriend's cats and tortured two others while the unsuspecting woman continued to adopt new ones over a four-month period, authorities sai (Read More)
Huffington Post:
ADELAIDE, Australia — A koala made famous by a photograph of her drinking from a firefighter's water bottle as wildfires ravaged Australia this year is about to undergo a risky surgery, animal shelter officials said Wednesday (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
"Silent killers" in Africa are usually malaria, malnutrition, river blindness, HIV/AIDs...and the list goes on. But recent reports suggest it might be time to add one more, and it's one you might not epect: obesity. (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
BAGHDAD — A 3-year-old Iraqi girl who was blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Baghdad car bombing has returned home to Baghdad with a new set of prosthetic eyes after a trip to London for medical treatment.Shams still can't see, (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
A few years ago, we spoke of the "AdSense Economy." It was so simple. Create a website, slap on an AdSense widget, and voila: "Insta-biz." Wow! Who knew business could be so simple? AdSense was proof of Google's genius, havin (Read More)
New York Times:
Two new books illuminate the groupthink blindness that came to afflict much of Wall Street and Washington.
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Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
Why can’t Facebook monetize those users? New York Times writer Randall Stross recently wrote a piece about Proctor & Gamble’s foray into social networking advertising. The thrust of the story can be found in a quote from Seth (Read More)
allABOUTFACE:
A concept in video advertising has been bubbling up amongst the professionals I’ve been listening to over the last six months, one that makes a lot of sense and is already in use by several successful podcasters, but one that (Read More)
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