Dakota Nafzinger, age eight, was born with bilateral anopthalmia, which means he has no eyes. Normally he uses a cane to get around, but on Monday of this week, a staff member at Gracemor Elementary School in Kansas City took his cane away on the bus as punishment and replaced it with a pool noodle.
Yesterday, researchers released findings that showed what was reported as a link between long term use of birth control and glaucoma, an incurable, progressive condition that leads to blindness. If you trusted the way it was reported by several outlets, even so much as thinking about whore pills was likely to cause…
Laura Ingalls and her sister Mary—whose lives were immortalized on Little House on the Prairie, and in the Little House series of books on which the TV show was based—were real people who were really pioneers in the 19th century. And the real Mary indeed went blind in 1879 when she was 14. Both the books and TV show…
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In this video, the very charming Tommy Edison shows how he cooks himself a meal without the benefit of a sense of sight. It looks a lot like how a sighted person would cook, except with more touching — and his tip about using the palm of your hand as a guide to gauge the doneness of meat is a good idea for anyone.…
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Sure, Playboy may be a dated publication with restrictive ideas about pubic hair. But Playboy for the blind is kind of awesome.
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[Madrid, November 3. Image via Getty]
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[Vincennes, September 27. Image via Getty]
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Two years ago, a German gynecologist began training blind women to use their heightened sense of touch to detect lumps in patients' breasts. So far, the 10 trainees have found more and smaller tumors than doctors in 450 cases. [CNN]
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Apparently, blind folks are always being asked, "How do you fancy someone if you can't see them?"
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The glitzy madness that is the Cannes Film Festival is in full swing! Yesterday, at the premiere of Blindness, which stars Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett was the one who stole the show. She was luminous and resplendent in ruffles! (Ms. Moore was weighed down by black feathers.) Who else was basking in the glare of…
