Published: Friday, 21 November 2008
From the time Ray Bradbury wrote The Martian Chronicles in the 1950’s, exploration of Mars has always been a topic that could catch the public’s fancy. And now, NASA is endeavoring to ensure that Mars exploration will be able to kindle the fancy of the next generation as well. One of their key ways of doing this is a contest which invites students to name the next Rover setting off to Mars.
Published: Sunday, 16 November 2008
As someone who was bullied a great deal in school, I came to have a distinct lack of empathy for the perpetrators of this behavior. Anyone who wasn’t considered normal either because they had a disability, were too short, too smart, too anything, came to have that same lack of sympathy. However, new research made me pause and wonder: “Might there be another reason bullies do the things they do?”
According to the study, bullies’ brains may be wired to feel pleasure when they see other people in pain.
Published: Friday, 14 November 2008
With many experts predicting that in just a few decades we may run out of petroleum, a staple of daily life and especially transportation, there is a battle raging over alternative energy sources. One possible contender may be the air car.
Published: Sunday, 9 November 2008
A blind marching band from the Ohio State School for the Blind was invited earlier this month to the Rose Parade of 2010. This would be incredible in and of itself, since it is the first blind marching band hosted by the parade. In fact, the band’s director, Carol Aglers, said that she doesn’t know of any other blind marching bands in the country. But it becomes even more amazing when you consider the strict criteria that bands who are asked to play in the parade are judged by. They are judged for uniqueness, overall talent, and marching/musical ability.
Published: Friday, 7 November 2008
It’s said you learn something new every day, and I certainly did this week. The National Federation of The Blind’s National Student Division is designing a website where they can post tips for students on subjects including what to expect in college, how to deal with college disability offices, and the minimal and ideal levels of skill you should have in areas ranging from travel to home management before you leave for college. If the skill list had been a test, I’m sure I would have failed. Later I’ll tell you about my shortcomings in these areas, and what I
Published: Sunday, 2 November 2008
Louis Braille was one of the movers and shakers of the blind community, a man who was far ahead of his time. He revolutionized the way blind people had access to written information, as well as giving us an alphabet of our own.
Published: Friday, 31 October 2008
Three years ago today, I was in a convalescent home with my grandmother when she passed away. To say the least, Halloween hasn’t been the same since. Granny, as I called her, began to feel sick the Christmas before her death. The doctor said she had the flu, gave her medicine and told her to rest. When she didn’t get better, he said she had pneumonia. Then a few weeks later, he said it had turned into bronchitis.
Published: Sunday, 26 October 2008
Several years ago, we acquired a new member of the household, namely a female cat who has a horrendously long name invented by me (it’s so long we couldn’t put apostrophes or spaces on the original registration in order for it to be recorded in its entirety) who we call Alley for short. Although the cat was originally purchased for me, she gravitated toward my Mom.
Published: Friday, 24 October 2008
Mentoring, to me, is an incredibly vital part of a student’s life. In my humble opinion, it needs to be employed in our education system far more often than it is today. There’s so much knowledge that you can’t learn from a book, from the ins and outs of college admissions to discerning which university has the best program featuring your major. And for blind individuals, the small things that you can’t learn from a book double and triple, and become even more important.
Published: Sunday, 19 October 2008
You would think that since I have both cerebral palsy and blindness, one of those two would prove to be my greatest obstacle. They are obstacles—but not the greatest ones.
Lately, my greatest obstacle has proven to be migraines. It would seem that with as many preventative medicines on the market as there are, migraines could be prevented or controlled to the point they would not be a problem. However, I have yet to find a preventative medication that works.
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