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This is the second edition of Gonz Blinko's Blind News Digest and the team and I are pretty proud of this one. This edition contains more than forty articles covering many different aspects of blindness from all over the world. I didn't do an actual count but I'd bet that more than two-thirds of the stories in this edition come from outside of the US.

Last week, we published the first edition of the digest. We did so on January 4 and I was so focussed on getting the digest published that I forgot that it was Louis Braille's birthday and it was also World Braille Day. That edition did contain some articles about braille but this one has more both discussing braille and the celebration of it.

Perhaps the most interesting article in this edition is the first one under "Science and Medicine." It describes Mike May's regaining his vision and includes a lot of reasons a person blind from birth or early childhood may not want their blindness cured.

Our most controversial articles this edition are the first two in the Blindness Organizations section. These discuss the ongoing sexual misconduct cases at NFB and Colorado Center for the Blind. Sexual misconduct seems to be in the news a lot lately and why should the blind community be excluded from this discussion?

The largest section we have in this edition is the one entitled Science and Medicine. It has quite a few articles about different research projects and therapies from diseases related to blindness that came from a lot of different parts of the world. I found a lot of these articles very interesting as I was assembling this edition.

As always, we have a wide array of stories from a large number of subjects. Please tell us in the comments or by email via the contact form which you like best, which you'd like to see more of and which stories you might have left out had you been the editor.