Stories
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
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How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
Catalogue
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Defective vision in Mercantile Marine Service : the new regulations for testing eyesight.
Leet, Charles Henry, 1836-1907.Date: 1895- Books
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Eyesight of savage and civilized people / by Charles Roberts.
Roberts, Charles, 1836-1901.Date: 1885- Books
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The practical application and the relative value of the tests used in examining the eye muscles / by Alexander Duane.
Duane, A. (Alexander), 1858-1926.Date: 1905- Ephemera
Opticians ephemera. Box 1.
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Color-names, color-blindness, and the education of the color-sense in our schools / by B. Joy Jeffries.
Jeffries, B. Joy (Benjamin Joy), 1833-1915.Date: 1882