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The Bogus Science Behind Instagram’s New Glasses Trend

Recently on Instagram, the former Bachelor contestant Lauren Bushnell had an important message for her 1.1 million followers. Perched on her bed in loungewear, she grasped a new pair of glasses. In the caption, she warned of what might happen to her—and to you—without them: headaches, blurred vision, fatigue, and long-term retinal damage.

The glasses are from Diff Eyewear, a brand that had made only fashion sunglasses until it recently joined a rapidly growing market for glasses whose lenses are intended only to block blue light. Along with other up-and-coming eyewear lines like Quay Australia and Tijn Eyewear, Diff’s new frames are meant to be worn indoors, and they don’t promise…

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 The Bogus Science Behind Instagram’s New Glasses Trend

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The Eye Doc Blog

A resource for patients. What you want to know about your eyes and forgot to ask.

The VisionHelp Blog

Re-train the Visual Brain. Advancing awareness, understanding and best practices.

A Number of Things

This blog is about... Seeing beyond blindness, a family built by love (with biology and adoption), schooling, homeschooling and unschooling, being honest when life isn't so rosy, Christ's love pursuing us and most importantly, cuteness for the grandparents.

Blind But Not Wise

I grew up playing drums in rock bands and night clubs, worked as a reporter and now write for myself. I've had to deal with hearing and vision disabilities for the past several years. Hopefully, my thoughts recorded in this blog about life's unexpected changes will inspire others.

In the Center of the Roof

In this blog you’ll find all sorts of entries from adjustment to blindness to technology to sleep deprived ramblings to Tampa Bay Rays baseball to missing spoons to sobriety to posts about my incredible guide dog. Blogging is immensely cathartic for me and while I might go weeks without posting,

Jalapenos in the Oatmeal

Digesting Vision Loss by Jeff Flodin.

Low Visionary

I have been involved in the world of disability all my life, if you count living with low vision. Over the years I have worked on a fair number of disability issues and have developed some strong views on many of them. Post yours and let’s engage in some intelligent and respectful discussion and debate on our disability passions

Plume

Danish, male, social phobic, almost blind, crazy hermit. Loves goats and other animals, music, books, girls, TV, humour, soccer and the Internet.

SightSeeing

Some of the information posted here includes personal stories from CVI clients, perspectives from CVI's expert staff, hot topic issues in government, the latest trends in technology for the visually impaired, and much more. Our desire is that this blog is a useful tool to enlighten, educate and provide needed information in a meaningful dialogue for both the blind and sighted communities.

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