Why Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?

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This is a cool old movie from 1941 about how the eye works:
https://archive.org/details/05....86_How_the_Eye_Funct

Dive deeper into the physics of vision correction with Michel van Biezen:
https://www.youtube.com/playli....st?list=PLX2gX-ftPVX

Myopia boom in modern times:
http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120

Limits to human vision:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11019869

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