Archive for the ‘Just for fun’ Category
Monday, July 17th, 2006
In the novel Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, the fictional Zeno wrote of meeting four sisters whom he considered as possible marriage prospects. However, one had a squint -- another name for strabismus or a crossed eye. Zeno journaled how this one, Augusta, was eliminated from the prospects ...
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
After struggling with her two year old son for over an hour, Kelly finally gave up getting him to wear his new eye patch. Then she came up with an innovative idea. She produced a video of puppets wearing eye patches to encourage her son to wear his. ...
Posted in Children's vision, Education, Just for fun, Vision therapy | 2 Comments »
Monday, May 29th, 2006
"Life is going to throw you curveballs. You can either curl up on the nice leather couch and just tell the rest of the world to go away, or...."
Karen Parsegian, who has been blind for four years, finished that sentence by throwing the first pitch for the San Francisco Giants ...
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Wouldn't it be great if doing Vision Therapy was as fun as playing our favorite computer games? Perhaps that day is soon here!
Virtual reality games to treat amblyopia are already being researched at Nottingham University and the results are looking good.
Read the full story here:
BBC NEWS | Technology | ...
Posted in Computers and internet, Just for fun, Vision therapy | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
(See photo credit at the end of this article.)
Birds have eyes apart. Does that mean they have strabismus?
I was curious, so I did some research on what birds see. I uncovered some interesting facts.
Most articles I found agree that birds have better visual acuity and precision in ...
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