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That is exactly what Cheryl Martin, the director from the Lilac Blind Foundation, has been doing.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Brain Learns to See]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133246/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Normally, babies learn how to look at the world before they can communicate their experiences. The rare cases of people who have been blind all their lives and then had their sight restored offer scientists a unique opportunity to study how we learn to interpret visual signals. Pawan Sinha is studying children and adolescents in India who are seeing the world for the first time after treatment for blindness.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind and Gay]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82651/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The story about a blind man and his experience in the gay world.  Sorta sad.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Bramblitt, blind artist]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52754/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A quick search turns up a multiplicity of blind artists, but I really like this man's art.  Link inspired by <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/52699/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this post</a>.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Siafu, The PC for Blind People]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/53920/1/</link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen anything like this, it looks incredible. A new type of PC for blind people. I can't describe it very well, so have a look.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospital workers abandon blind patient at park after ex-wife refuses to take him in]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41587/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Four hospital workers abandoned a blind patient with diabetes at an Osaka park in September after his former wife refused to take him in.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Million-year-old human tooth found]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/26297/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Spanish researchers have reportedly unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Color Blind, And how They View the World.]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44298/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Very interesting look on how the color blind see things compared to normal sight.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contact lens that can help the blind see again]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/118090/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The groundbreaking operation brought significant improvements in vision within a matter of weeks. <br/><br/>The procedure uses a person's own cells to heal damage to the cornea - the transparent outermost layer of the eye.<br/><br/>Fitting news for <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/f/6639/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">FAF</a> if eyes win.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal judge rules paper money is unfair to the blind.]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/6634/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Soon we won't be able to short change sightless people anymore.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind Pianist Who Can Master Any Tune After Hearing It Once]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/120732/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Derek Paravicini is blind and severely disabled. He has absolute pitch. This means he can hear a piece of music once and be able to master it, even be able to change it up any way requested. He can hear a chord and recognize each individual note.<br/><i>see video <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/18258/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a></i>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electronic device that allows blind people to 'see' using their tongue ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132163/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A groundbreaking electronic device will allow blind people to 'see' using their tongues, scientists have claimed. The extraordinary technology takes pictures filmed by a tiny camera and turns the information into electrical pulses which can be felt on the tongue.<br/><br/>    Tests show that the nerves send messages to the brain which turn these tingles back into pictures.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beep Beep Beep Beep RUN!]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/131162/1/</link><description><![CDATA[For the bases that is. Blind individuals  play <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.nbba.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">beep ball</a>, a form of baseball specially modified for the blind. A special baseball that beeps (and weighs an entire pound!) is used, and payers run toward padded columnar &quot;bases&quot; that beep. Due to varying levels of sightedness, players wear blindfolds on the field to keep things equal. An update on the sport from an <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/24998/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">earlier post</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deaf and blind woman escapes her abductor then identifies the suspect]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/94554/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The woman &#8212; deaf and mute, with vision so poor she's legally blind &#8212; had been sitting at a bus stop when she was approached by a man she thought was a co-worker. She was wrong!]]></description></item></channel></rss>