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[conuly]

Researcher uses eye tracking to study linguistics (More interesting than the title makes it sound)

These Little-Known Nuns Helped Map the Stars

Born without hands, Chesapeake 7-year-old wins national handwriting contest

Continental drift created biologically diverse coral reefs

You Say Huzzah! They Said Huzzay!

Pluto Is Looking More Like A Planet After All

The World's Newest Major Religion: No Religion

"Miracle" as Blind Woman Recovers Sight from 21 Years of Blindness after Unrelated Spinal Surgery

Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury: video description with lyrics. (If you're wondering if this is safe for work, the answer is probably not, but hey, that's why there's a description.)

These ancient Asian primate fossils might be the missing pieces of a major evolutionary puzzle

My not-so-maternal instinct: I refuse to lie to my kids

For New York City's black cowboy group, it's high noon

Experts decipher the disease behind one of the world's most famous paintings

A day in the life of a midwife in Tanzania

We are bad judges of friendship, new study shows

Once unthinkable in US, drug shoot-up rooms get serious look

Captain America’s a douchey libertarian now: Why did Marvel have to ruin Steve Rogers?

A Nurse Describes the Smell of the Civil War

Relatives Of Japanese Taken By North Korea Still Hope To Find Loved Ones

Heartbreaking Photos of People Displaced by Mexico's Drug Violence

Private schools, painful secrets

Why Africa’s migrant crisis makes no sense to outsiders

Sea-level rise claims five islands in Solomons: study

Greek police, protesters clash ahead of austerity bill vote

Leader opposition party in Venezuela assassinated

US struggles to convince Iraqis it doesn't support IS

Comments

[steorra]

The "blind woman regains sight" article ... tidbit/correction that may be of interest: the article you link suggests that the blindness may have been caused by a kinked nerve, but the Telegraph article it cites for the story actually suggests that it was because of a kinked *artery*, not *nerve*.

Also, I'm really wondering what's behind the "she was colourblind before her accident but could see in colour when she regained her sight" part of the story. Particularly, that the first thing she commented on when she regained her sight was a colour. Okay, so most colourblindness isn't total, so even if she was red/green colourblind she probably had some experience of colours. But surely if she'd always been colourblind at some level, she couldn't, on suddenly gaining full colour vision, suddenly have accurate knowledge of which colour words referred to which colour experiences. (Did she somehow lose colour vision some time before her accident?)

[conuly]

Yeah, I thought that bit about the colorblindness was a weird detail as well.