vision

  • How to Break in a New Pair of Glasses

    How to Break in a New Pair of Glasses

    Optimism tells you that your new glasses with the updated prescription will surely make the world around you clearer. And they do! But then you walk outside and everything looks a little off. Maybe the ground looks slanted, causing dizziness, or you find yourself fighting back headaches or nausea. Your new glasses are making you…


  • Be Ready for When You Inevitably Break Your Glasses

    Be Ready for When You Inevitably Break Your Glasses

    You step on your glasses in the middle of the night. Or a house fire melts your eyeglass frames. A tornado rips your glasses right off your face. Or a pandemic worsens, your glasses break, everything shuts down, there’s no way to get a replacement. As a glasses wearer I’ve thought about all these possibilities…


  • What To Do If You Think Your Child Is Colour Blind

    Little kids are learning so much in their earliest years. They’re learning to walk and talk and identify all sorts of things—people, animals, numbers, letters and colours. And it turns out that the way we use colours in English—typically prenominally, or before nouns—doesn’t help. We tend to say, “There’s a blue car,” rather than, “there’s…


  • This Optical Illusion Can Change Your Vision For Over 3 Months

    Graphic designers, you should probably stay away from this one. This optical illusion messes with your vision in a way that creates false colours that could linger for over three months – though don’t worry, you have to be trying pretty hard to have that pronounced an effect. It’s called the McCollough effect, and here…