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Blind spot (vision)
Blind spot (vision), or physiological blind spot (punctum caecum), is the visual-field gap corresponding to the photoreceptor-free optic disc, about 6° × 7° at 15–16° temporal; discovered by Mariotte in 1668 and normally hidden by filling-in and the fellow eye.
Blind spot monitor
A blind spot monitor (BSM), also sold as Blind Spot Information System (BLIS), is a driver-assistance system that detects vehicles in blind spots and warns the driver.
Blind Tom Wiggins
Blind Tom Wiggins (Thomas Greene Wiggins, Thomas Bethune, 1849-1908), blind enslaved-born American pianist and composer from Columbus, Georgia; performed for Buchanan in 1860, composed The Battle of Manassas, mastered some 7,000 pieces, and remained under Bethune-family guardianship his whole life.
Blind walking on rough terrain
Blind walking on rough terrain is a legged-robot locomotion capability in which a robot traverses uneven ground using only proprioceptive sensing, such as joint encoders and inertial measurement units.
Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945) was an American gospel blues singer and slide guitarist from Texas who recorded thirty titles for Columbia Records between 1927 and 1930.
Blinded by the Light
"Blinded by the Light" is a Bruce Springsteen song from his 1973 debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.; Manfred Mann's Earth Band's 1976 cover, with the "revved up like a deuce" mishearing, hit Billboard No. 1 in February 1977.
Blinded by the Light (2019 film)
Blinded by the Light is a 2019 British-American comedy-drama directed by Gurinder Chadha, based on Sarfraz Manzoor's memoir about a Pakistani teen's love of Bruce Springsteen.
Blinded experiment
A blinded experiment keeps participants and researchers unaware of which treatment each group receives, minimizing bias; the earliest well documented example tested Mesmer's animal magnetism in 1784.
Blinded randomized trial
A blinded randomized trial is a clinical trial in which chance assigns treatments and one or more parties stay unaware of assignments, minimizing bias in estimated treatment effects.
Blindfire
Blindfire (2020 film), Michael Nell's debut crime drama produced by Howard Barish's Kandoo Films, stars Brian Geraghty as a cop who kills an innocent Black man during a swatting prank call; released November 13, 2020.
Blinding (clinical trials)
Blinding, also called masking, is the practice of keeping participants, providers, and outcome assessors unaware of treatment assignments in a randomized trial, reducing information bias.
Blinding (cryptography)
Blinding is a cryptographic countermeasure that mixes a random factor into private-key computations like RSA decryption, so side-channel leakage no longer reveals the secret key.
Blinding Lights
"Blinding Lights" is a 2019 synth-pop single by the Weeknd from After Hours, written with Max Martin and Oscar Holter; it spent 90 weeks on the Hot 100, topped charts in 33 countries, and became Spotify's most-streamed song.
Blinding of Vasily II
The blinding of Vasily II (Ослепление Василия II) was the capture and blinding of Grand Prince Vasily II of Moscow by his cousin Dmitry Shemyaka in 1446.
Blindness (novel)
Blindness (Ensaio sobre a Cegueira) is a 1995 novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago in which an unnamed city is struck by an unexplained epidemic of white blindness.
Blindsight
Blindsight: residual visual capacity, such as detecting or locating stimuli, without perceptual awareness after primary visual cortex (V1) damage; coined by Larry Weiskrantz from patient DB studies, supported by LGN and superior colliculus-pulvinar pathways.
Blindsight (Watts novel)
Blindsight (2006) by Peter Watts, first of the Firefall series with Echopraxia: hard SF first-contact novel in which the crew of Theseus meets the non-conscious Scramblers at Oort object Rorschach; Hugo-nominated, Creative Commons full text online.
Blindspot (TV series)
Blindspot is an American crime drama created by Martin Gero that aired on NBC from 2015 to 2020, following an amnesiac, tattooed woman known as Jane Doe.
Blindspotting
Blindspotting is a 2018 comedy-drama film, Carlos Lopez Estrada's directorial debut, co-written by and starring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal. Set in gentrifying Oakland, it follows a parolee who witnesses a police shooting; it premiered at Sundance 2018 and spawned a 2021 Starz series.
Bling Capital
Bling Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded by Ben Ling in 2018 and headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida since 2023. It invests $1 million to $5 million in software, healthcare, and consumer companies.
Bling Dawg
Bling Dawg is the stage name of Jamaican dancehall artist Marlon Ricardo Williams, a member of the Alliance who released his debut album, Elev8, in 2022.
Bling Empire
Bling Empire is a Netflix reality series (2021-2023) about wealthy Asian and Asian American socialites in Los Angeles, inspired by Crazy Rich Asians; three seasons plus a Bling Empire: New York spin-off before April 2023 cancellation.
Bling Ring
The Bling Ring: Los Angeles youths including Rachel Lee, Nick Prugo, and Alexis Neiers who burglarized celebrity homes such as Paris Hilton's in 2008-2009, stealing over $3 million; subject of Coppola's 2013 film.
Bling-Bang-Bang-Born
Bling-Bang-Bang-Born is a 2024 Jersey club song by Japanese hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts, the Mashle season 2 opening theme; it topped the Billboard Japan Hot 100, hit No. 8 on the Global 200, and earned RIAJ Diamond streaming certification.
Blingy
Blingy (BLINGY) is the seventh studio album by K-pop group NCT 127, released August 24, 2026 via SM Entertainment for the group's 10th debut anniversary. Nine tracks, 26 minutes, title track "Blingy," promoted by five members.
Blini
Blini are thin pancakes of Russian and eastern European cuisine, traditionally made from buckwheat flour. They can be yeast-fermented, resulting in a sour, porous texture.
Blink (1993 film)
Blink is a 1993 American crime thriller directed by Michael Apted, starring Madeleine Stowe as a blind Chicago musician whose sight returns as she witnesses a murder.
Blink (2024 American film)
Blink is a 2024 documentary film by Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher following the Lemay-Pelletier family's year-long world trip after three of their four children are diagnosed with an incurable disease causing blindness.
Blink (2024 Indian film)
Blink (ಬ್ಲಿಂಕ್) is a 2024 Kannada sci-fi thriller, the directorial debut of Srinidhi Bengaluru, produced by Ravichandra AJ under Janani Pictures. Starring Dheekshith Shetty as Apoorva, it adapts Oedipus Rex through time travel, released 8 March 2024 and streaming on Prime Video.
Blink (browser engine)
Blink, also known as Google Blink, is the open-source rendering engine of Chromium, forked from WebKit in 2013, that turns HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into pages for Chrome, Edge, and Brave.