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It’s not that an inordinate amount of attention is paid to the history of optics and optometry principally from a white perspective, it’s not that a lot of attention is paid to the history of optics and optometry at all...

Visual resolution is the ability of the human eye to see fine spatial detail. Suffice it to say, the human eye, though not the most complex eye in the natural world, is quite astonishing in its capability and resolution...

Clad head-to-toe in mossy oak camo with shocks of blaze orange, Vermont’s winter woods are now teeming with hunters patiently waiting, watching, and listening for a passing bear or buck...

How smart would your smartphone really be if only people with 20/20 vision could use it? Turns out, the designers of the most ubiquitous smartphone technologies out there, the Android and iPhone, thought a smartphone like that wouldn’t be very smart at all...

It’s not so much a science in the evidence-based way we understand science to be, as it’s more likely just an interesting idea, but for proponents of Iridology, a person’s eyes, specifically the patterns and colors of the iris...

In the last month, NASA dropped the first astonishing images of deep space from its new James Webb Space Telescope. Remarkable, mind-blowing, dazzling full-color images of stars being born, clusters of…

It is officially summer, which means making the absolute most out of three months of sunshine and swimming! While you may choose to lounge poolside on those hot sunny days, with so many idyllic lakes and…

Memorial Day is a time when we stop to reflect upon and mourn for the countless lives lost by those serving in the U.S. armed forces; it’s not necessarily a time when we consider what eyeglasses those…

Considering how small your eyes are compared to the rest of your body, it’s almost shocking how often we tend to injure them! No matter what it is we’re doing, we’re most likely focusing our eyes directly…

For purposes of this blog, we are going to be just a little liberal with our definition of “safety” to include keeping your eyes safe from the effects of the sun as well! It’s hard to argue that sunglasses aren’t really just cool-looking safety glasses…