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Eye Care Tips for Voracious Readers: Read Without Strain

Eye Care Tips for Voracious Readers: Read Without Strain

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In a recent survey of American reading habits, the Washington Post found that the top 1% of the most avid readers go through upwards of 50 books in a year. Of course, this poll did not consider the differences between hard reading, casual perusal, scanning, and curious reading for pure entertainment. Regardless of one’s reading motivations, following eye care tips for readers is crucial since consuming lots of written content can be very tasking on the eyes. Such a visually intensive hobby requires good habits and care to continue enjoying it thoroughly. Thankfully, you can follow simple eye care tips to maintain your eye health and read as much as you want. 1. Wear the right glasses According to the American Optometric Association, the development of myopia (or nearsightedness, one of the most common eye conditions) can be determined by how an individual uses their eyes. Specifically, those who spend lots of time reading are part of a select group more likely to develop this issue. The goal is to slow or stop progression entirely …

Eye tests in special schools will create ‘unfunded burden’

Eye tests in special schools will create ‘unfunded burden’

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More from this theme Recent articles The government is ploughing ahead with delayed plans to offer students in all special schools in England free NHS eye tests – but it has been warned it could create a “huge unfunded burden”. In October, the government and NHS England re-committed to a pledge that eyesight checks would be carried out annually for students in all day or residential special education needs schools. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said NHS England will provide up to £12.7 million in funding annually from next year to support this national rollout, following a pilot in 83 schools. Sight tests will be done in participating schools, and children who need glasses will be given two pairs of their choice, with specialist frames included, free of charge, NHS guidance states. SeeAbility, a charity, says children with learning disabilities are 28 times more likely to have a serious sight problem, and thousands across the country are missing out on eye care they need. But it fears that the model from the …

Beyoncé’s daughter Blue Ivy’s ’emotional’ understanding revealed as pre-teen gets ready for next public eye moment

Beyoncé’s daughter Blue Ivy’s ’emotional’ understanding revealed as pre-teen gets ready for next public eye moment

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Blue Ivy Carter is expected to attend the London premiere of Mufasa: The Lion King this week, with the big event happening on December 11.  The pre-teen voices Kiara in the upcoming film, alongside her mom, Beyoncé, who is reprising her role as Nala. The 12-year-old got her big film break after director Barry Jenkins heard her narrate the children’s book, Hair Love, by Matthew Cherry.  He said he knew “that’s my character” when listening to it, but like everyone else, she auditioned.  Recommended videoYou may also likeWATCH: Blue Ivy shares sweet moment with sister Rumi What’s more, Barry revealed that he gets the impression Blue has an advanced emotional maturity due to her unique upbringing with her famous parents.  Discussing his decision to cast her during the San Diego Safari Park on December 6, Barry said: “I don’t know Blue Ivy’s life, but I imagine she grows up a little bit different than everyone else. I think because of that, she’s grown up and so she had all these wells of understanding, experience, emotional …

How primate eye tracking reveals new insights into the evolution of language

How primate eye tracking reveals new insights into the evolution of language

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The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers – they all provide a continuous stream of information that we need to track and make sense of. Who is dating whom? Who is in a fight with whom? While our capacity for dealing with such a large social network is impressive, it’s not something especially unique to humans. Other primates do it too. We – humans and other primates such as monkeys and apes – have something called social knowledge that allows us to keep track of the social dynamics of our friends, neighbours and even enemies. What is perhaps different about humans, though, is the way in which we communicate about these dynamics. If I see my neighbours saying hello, I can easily express this in a sentence: “David is greeting Iris.” As far as research has shown, other primates can’t do this. They can communicate about individual entities, such as alarm calling when there’s danger, or producing food calls when they find a food they like. But they don’t seem …

A drone’s eye view of ‘foodscapes,’ from cattle to soybeans to shrimp : Goats and Soda : NPR

A drone’s eye view of ‘foodscapes,’ from cattle to soybeans to shrimp : Goats and Soda : NPR

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The African nation of Mauritania was a land of pastoral nomads when it gained independence from France in 1960, but it has since become a nation of fishermen as well, with hundreds of pirogues lining the beach of the capital of Nouakchott. George Steinmetz hide caption toggle caption George Steinmetz We usually encounter our food roughly at eye level: stacked on shelves in the supermarket, displayed on stands at outdoor markets, beckoning at the Thanksgiving table. Acclaimed photographer George Steinmetz wanted to bring a different perspective to our daily bread, protein and produce. As he looks at the way food makes its way to feed a constantly growing human population, he works mainly with drones for a bird’s eye view. In his “foodscapes,” human, boats and machines all play a role. George Steinmetz, a pioneer in aerial photography, atop The New York Times building. His new book is Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World’s Food. Kathy Ryan hide caption toggle caption Kathy Ryan Steinmetz is a pioneer of photographing from above. Before …

Lorde fans express concern after singer shares selfie with black eye

Lorde fans express concern after singer shares selfie with black eye

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Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free Lorde has left fans worried after she wiped her Instagram of past posts and shared a selfie of her sporting a black eye. On Monday (September 30), all former posts shared on the 27-year-old Kiwi singer’s social media account had been deleted. She then shared two car selfies, which show bruising around her right eye. The caption reads: “DYHTS,” alongside several emoji symbols. The “Supercut” artist’s pictures have left fans confused and alarmed, with many questioning if she was ok. “I’m hoping she just accidentally hit her face on something,” one person on Reddit commented, while a second tweeted: “OMG I hope it heals immediately.” “WHAT HAPPENED TO HER?” a third asked. “Looks like she’s been through a tough time! Hope she’s okay,” a fourth said, with another adding that they were “sending positive vibes her way.” “I hope she’s …

Robots’ eye contact elicits human-like responses in infants

Robots’ eye contact elicits human-like responses in infants

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Researchers recently published a study in the journal Biological Psychology investigating how infants respond to eye contact from both humans and humanoid robots. The study found that infants, even at just 6 to 8 months old, recognize the significance of eye contact, not only from human faces but also from robots with human-like features. The ability to interpret eye contact is a critical part of social development. From a very young age, infants are already attuned to the eyes of those around them. Eye contact can signal social intentions, such as a desire to communicate or form an emotional connection. Past research has shown that even newborns prefer faces with direct gazes over faces with averted gazes, suggesting that eye contact plays a role in shaping early social interactions. However, much of the research on infants’ response to eye contact has focused on interactions with humans. As humanoid robots become more prevalent in settings like caregiving and education, it raises an important question: Do infants view eye contact from robots as socially meaningful in the …

Shoplifting is now at record levels. Here’s how it went from a crime punishable by death to police ‘turning a blind eye’

Shoplifting is now at record levels. Here’s how it went from a crime punishable by death to police ‘turning a blind eye’

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Wherever you are on the political spectrum, shoplifting has come to symbolise today’s “broken Britain”. On the left, it is an inevitable product of the cost of living crisis and poverty, fuelled in part by growing levels of drug and alcohol addiction. On the right, it is a damning symptom of ineffectual policing and the general decline in respect for authority and property. Nigel Farage’s announcement that he was standing in the 2024 general election included the claim that in modern Britain: “You can go shoplifting and nick up to 200 quid’s worth of kit before anyone is even going to prosecute you.” While police chiefs have denied this claim, shoplifting was identified by most parties as a key issue for voters and businesses alike, with then-policing minister Chris Philp calling it “a blight on our high streets and communities”. Office for National Statistics Annual shoplifting offences in England and Wales went up 30% in 2024 to a record of almost 444,000 cases logged by police. The British Retail Consortium’s 2024 crime survey estimated that …

Tula Skincare Cooling Eye Balm

Tula Skincare Cooling Eye Balm

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. As a working parent, I never felt truly seen until I binged Workin’ Moms, Katherine Reitman’s mommedy (mom comedy!) that, in her own words, “points a flashlight into the darkest corners of motherhood.” The Canadian series’ depictions of stress-filled days and sleepless nights struck a certain chord in this chronically under-rested person (I’ll save my sleep issues for another day), and as a result, I’ve tried nearly every beauty product under the sun that promises to erase the dark circles under my slumber-deprived eyes. Related: The Best Beauty Deals to Shop at Amazon: $100 Off Dyson Hair Tools, 30% off Vegamour The TL;DR of it all is that Tula’s Glow & Get It eye balms have been my skincare saviors, even on my most well-rested days. The hydrating under-eye treatments — more specifically, the rose option — have become essentials in this shopping editor’s on-the-go makeup and travel kits. (It even made …

Eye Movement Therapies, Purple Hats, and the Sagan Standard

Eye Movement Therapies, Purple Hats, and the Sagan Standard

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Editor’s note: Gerald Rosen and Gerald Davison coined the term purple hat therapy as a metaphor for treatment packages such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) that combine essential elements (cognitive and behavioral techniques) and nonessential elements (eye movements). Wikipedia now has a page dedicated to this concept. In the 1980s, several novel psychotherapeutic techniques were proposed for the rapid cure of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). At the forefront of these “power therapies” was Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a method developed by Francine Shapiro (1948–2019) and still commonly used today. Shapiro reported a 100 percent success rate treating trauma memories with multi-saccadic eye movements, and she assured clinicians who read her report that they could use eye movements to “achieve complete desensitization of 75–80% of any individually treated trauma-related memory in a single 50-minute session” (Shapiro 1989, 221). Shapiro then offered workshops that introduced her treatment to thousands of clinicians. Over time, EMDR came to enjoy the sun of scientific endorsement. We offer a less than sanguine view of EMDR, believing that …