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The Best Optical Illusions of 2014

An optical illusion is a visually perceived image that differs from objective reality. Each year, the Neural Correlate Society holds a contest to see who can create the most mind-bending, eye-baffling optical illusions. A panel selects the top 10, and the top three are picked by an international gathering of people who must be immune …

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Work Out to Prevent Retinal Disease

With swim suit season in full swing, everyone is hitting the gym or yoga studio to get that rocking summer body. What if all that sweating and ab crunching could not only help you stay fit, but also help prevent the progress of retinal disease? Findings from a new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience, …

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Seeing an Unseeable World

The universe is full of amazing visuals that even those with perfect vision can't see with the naked eye. This TED Talk video by Louie Schwartzberg, that came across our monitors by way of Petapixel, gives us a glimpse of the natural world's hidden miracles through time-lapse, slo mo and microscopic imagery. From these fascinating …

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Super POV

Admit it. At some point in time, we've all wanted to be just like Superman - faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. And for those of us in the eye care industry, you can't forget the super power of telescopic vision. Now, …

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Explaining Colors to a Blind Person

For most people, learning their basic colors is part of a fun-filled preschool curriculum. But for some people, like blind YouTuber Tommy Edison, learning the color wheel is beyond comprehension at any age. What he lacks in visual acuity he more than makes up for with insight and a sense of humor. And that's a …

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This Is Not Yellow – Crazy Color Knowledge from Vsauce

For most of us, colors are easy. We learn them when we're just toddlers. We recognize them and instinctively know that bananas are yellow, apples are red (but sometimes green), and the sky is blue. But when we see something that is yellow, are we actually seeing yellow? It depends where we're seeing it. Like …

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How Animals See the World

Animals are around us all the time. Whether they're in a zoo or in our homes as pets, they see us and we see them. But have you ever wondered if we are looking at the same thing? How do animals really see the world we live in? This awesome video posted by Buzz Feed …

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Is Your Red My Red?

While any two people with normal color vision can point to an object and probably agree on the color of that object, do they actually see the color the same? To answer this question, we turn to Vsauce, our favorite YouTuber with an always interesting perspective on vision. Mind-blowing takeaway: Color is merely an illusion, …

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3-D Printing is Changing the Way the Visually Impaired See the World

For sighted people, the world we see and interact with on a daily basis is full of three-dimensional objects and perspectives that our sense of sight allows us to fully comprehend and appreciate. The visually impaired, however, often only have words and descriptions to rely on to experience this same environment. Because of this, it's …

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