Watching TV and playing video games for too long is considered bad for your vision. But according to a team of researchers, spending time playing video games might actually sharpen your vision. Contrast is that property of human vision that allows an individual to distinguish...
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A University of Rochester study finds that high action video games improve vision in very practiced players. Earlier it was believed that ability to discern slight differences in shades by human eye can’t be improved without medical intrusion. It turns out regular high...
Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada has launched a new identity. It is a new logo - a circle. Shown here as a (really nice) animation. I like it, do you? "To accompany Emily Carr's brand-new university status and name change, we've revamped our...
Galileo Galilei, when he ws buried in 1642 in unconscreated ground, left a few questions behind him. How could a man with such bad eyesight have made such astute observations about astronomy? Also, how did his bad...
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Software has been created that could help improve the life of visually-impaired children.The software, titled Sight-Sim, measures a child's eyes and translates the images on to a screen. It would help to make clear the childs lenth of vision so changes could be made to the...
Netraheen Vikas Sansthan (Blind School Jodhpur-Rajasthan-India )is working for rehabilitation of blind students since last 31 years in Suncity Jodhpur by providing free education with boarding and lodging facility separately for boys and Girls. The School was started on 15th...
Samuel Johnson once said that "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel". As I watch the maneuvering in City Hall I'm reminded of his line. After getting decimated in the recent civic election...
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President Elect Obama provided short Biographies of his economic team on his transition website today. "Chicago -- President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden officially announced key...
Why this kind of thing happens with poors.They are poor in one hand and know they will be physically dependent.This is an extreme case of neglegence on the part of healthcare professional."At least 16 people are...
Soviet-style political psychiatry practiced in Vancouver has been attracting attention internationally but I’d never heard it mentioned by a candidate in the civic election campaign. Until Monday. At an All...
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Transparency. That’s a promise Gregor Robertson has been making as he asks Vancouverites to vote for him as Mayor. Robertson knows that Vancouver residents are upset after discovering that City Council had voted...
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The bottom line for Kits residents: if you want change vote COPE and Vision."Anyone who is happy with how the last term of Council has been managed by the NPA majority would likely experience more of the same by voting NPA. Anyone who wants a change in the direction of...
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Most political news in Vancouver has been swirling around the $100 million loan that is reportedly been authorized as a bailout cushion to either Millennium Development Corp (the company building the Olympic...
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The NPA may be in deep over the Olympic Village. A Global News story implicates the former president of Ladner's NPA party, Paul Barbeau, with Armeco, the group who owns the Millenium Development Corp - developers...
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When it comes to conducting government business on her private email account, rather than on her official government account that would put the email on public record, Vision Vancouver’s Eleanor Gregory is...
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