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Your eyes may see what’s right in front of you, but ultimately your eyes don’t make the decisions! You wear the pants in that relationship, and unless you’re thinking with your eyes in mind, you may not…

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…

In the mid-1800s, the German physicist, physician, and researcher Hermann von Helmholtz proposed, among other things, his Sampling Theory of Visual Resolution. Visual resolution being the ability of the…

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. As far as they’re…

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…

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…

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…

It is estimated that the average person blinks 15 to 20 times per minute while awake. That translates to 900 to 1,200 times per hour, or 14,400 to 19,200 times per day! Each blink is a mere 0.1 to 0.4…

Routine eye exams are recommended for everyone, but especially for those that wear glasses and/or contact lenses. Your vision can change significantly over time, even if the changes are seemingly undetectable,…

We often take for granted the eyes through which we see the world, and the art with which we try to illuminate, explore, and understand it. Not all art is visual art, of course, but some art makes vision…

If you head outside on this blustery winter day, you’ll see comfortably familiar alongside eager new local businesses shoveling their walkways, decorating their windows with garland and lights, and greeting…

Our eyes are constantly adjusting to different light environments throughout the day, from walking inside from the bright sunlight outside, or into a dark room from a lighted one. While we all need light…

Beauty, it’s said, is in the eye of the beholder. With the hills of Vermont alight in their annual cornucopia of brilliant colors from deep, resplendent reds to blinding yellows, what of the eyes beholding…

Hey! Did you know that we posted the first blog post to our brand-new website on February 24, 2017! In the nearly 5-years since that first post announcing our new website, inviting you to find out more…

You would not be alone if you thought Double Vision was simply a product of enjoying one too many on a Saturday night. If you’ve ever experienced it, you probably agree that seeing one too many is anything…

Fifteen-plus hours of daylight today in this second full week of summer with temperatures tip thermometers near ninety degrees means your body is taking a beating out there, and that includes your eyes! …