Incredible Facts
Select topics from the contents below to find out some fascinating and incredible facts about them!
- Animal senses
- Are you Paying Attention?
- Computer Science Unplugged
- Captain Cook's First New Zealand Voyage
- Captain Cook's Second New Zealand Voyage
- Crystals
- Glassblowers
- Incredible Vision
- Incredibly Boney Bones
- Life on the Rocky Shore is Hard!
- Light Metals Transporting the World
- Life on Mars
- Why did the Moa grow so large?
- What is Colour Blindness?
- Slime
- Sport and Exercise
- The Internet
- Antarctica
What is Colour Blindness?
Colour blindness is when you can’t see certain colours. A better name than colour blind is ‘colour defect’ because people with this problem can see colours but they often find it hard to tell the difference between colours.
Did you know?
- Defective red-green colour vision is the most common
- It is more common in males than females
- In very rare cases, some people cannot see any colour