/ 06 June 2022

Marmalade sandwiches with Paddington and the Queen, an art gallery’s creative solution for colourblindness, and horsin’ around…

Queen Elizabeth has had a big weekend, even though her mobility issues have kept her from the big Platinum Jubilee events. First, she hung out with Paddington Bear and showed us what she keeps in her handbag. And she was gifted a horse by France. Pretty good going…

Going to an art gallery can be a flat experience for people with colour-blindness. One Aussie gallery is making up for that by offering vision-enhancing glasses that deliver a fuller range of colours. “It’s weird,” said one user.

And for a different art experience, Melbourne runner Belinda Smith likes to draw animals using a GPS tracker while training. She became “intensely bored” doing a run of the mill jog, but this way, “it’s like, ‘It’s a horse! I just ran a horse!'”

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