Island of the Colorblind - Part 1 of 6

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Uploaded by on Oct 2, 2008

Oliver Sacks visits the Pacific atoll of Pingelap to visit an isolated community of islanders born totally colorblind.

Part 1 of 6.

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x16fMHgjEp8

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  • @michelenell

    really!?

    That is amazing!

    I am doing an artistic reasearch of this sort of things and - wow!

  • From a great PBS miniseries. Thanks for sharing!

  • Thank you so much for posting this. I'm currently doing a project about achromatopsia for biology and this is extremely helpful.

  • I just started reading this book and love seeing clips related to it. My husband is 100% colorblind.

  • Thank you for the posting of this video. Up until a few weeks ago my sister and I never knew what was wrong with our eyes. It all makes sense now.

  • @rinsoblue I wanted to reply to you. I have just found this video and your response. I am also colorblind and my sister to we live in Colorado. It would be great to speak back and forth if you would like to.

  • Thank you for posting this video.

  • Thank you so much for uploading this. This is one of based of one of the only Oliver Sacks books I haven't read yet- so it's a thrill to have found this. Sacks gets so excited about the particularities and individuality's of the human cognitive experience. It's infectious. Fascinating. Thanks

  • thank you for postin this video. i am pingelapese living here in portland, oregon and i have an aunt here that is also colorblind. we have a small pingelapese community here in portland about 200 people.

  • Thanks ever so much for posting this. I've been trying to get hold of it for ages but it's just not available anywhere on DVD.

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