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• 04:23

  A Curable Condition That Causes Blindness - Andrew Bastawrous

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  View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-curable-condition-that-causes-blindness-andrew-bastawrous An estimated 20 million cases of blindness worldwide are caused by cataracts, a curable condition affecting the lens that focuses images onto the eye’s

• 02:51

  The Horrors Of Ancient Cataract Surgeries

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  Doctors have been slicing into eyeballs for over 2500 years. Luckily, surgeons have made some progress since then. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ Fa

• 04:25

  The Blind Astronomer Of Nova Scotia

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  Tim Doucette is legally blind, yet he sees the stars better than most people. A childhood diagnosis of congenital cataracts forced doctors to remove Doucette's lenses and widen his pupils. That left the amateur astronomer with only about 10 percent of his

• 05:13

  Curing Blindness Can Only Take 5 Minutes, Thanks to This Revolutionary Method

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  A dedicated team of eye doctors are on a mission to rid the world of preventable blindness, one incision at a time. How Eyes Evolved to See the World Differently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsuSfkr3I10 Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/user/DNewsChan

• 04:45

  NASA Actually Helped Save The World — Here's How

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  NASA literally saved us from a planet-wide apocalypse in the 1980's. If they hadn't noticed a huge problem in our atmosphere, life on Earth would have collapsed by the year 2065.  Tech Insider tells you all you need to know about tech: gadgets, how-to's,

• 11:25

  Worlds Smallest Tesla Valve? - Shrinky Dink (Shrink Film) Microfluidics

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  Microfluidics is the study and construction of collections of tiny fluid channels that can accomplish an incredible array of tasks; from simple mixing, to math and computer logic. But making the flow cells that make use of the principles of microfluidics

• 03:08

  This Surgeon Has Restored Sight to 130,000 of Nepals Blind

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  Dr. Sanduk Ruit is an ophthalmologist on a mission to restore sight to Nepals blind. He is the executive director of the nonprofit Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Kathmandu, Nepal, and has operated on more than 130,000 patients. He has adopted inno

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