Why do we have two eyes if we only see one image?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

Vermont Public

Nature, Language, Kids & Family, Science

4.4 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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What shape are our eyes? What are they made of? How do they work? What’s the point of having two eyes if we only see one image? Why do we blink? What’s the point of tears and why are they salty? We answer your questions about eyes in the first of two episodes with Dr. Sujata Singh, a pediatric ophthalmologist at the University of Vermont Medical Center.

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0:00.0	The This is, but why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public. I'm Jane Lindholm. On this show, we take questions from
0:27.0	curious kids all over the world and find interesting people to answer them.
0:31.4	Many, many years ago now, we did a couple of episodes about our bodies and
0:35.2	how they work. We had so many questions just about eyes that we actually didn't include eyes
0:41.0	at all in those episodes.
0:43.0	And we promised at the time we'd make another one
0:45.5	just about eyes.
0:47.3	Well, time got away from us.
0:49.0	But here we are now with not one,
0:51.2	but two episodes about eyes, eyeballs, and eyeglasses.
0:55.8	We decided to take your eyeball and cite questions with us to a doctor's office at the
1:00.0	University of Vermont Medical Center, where I thought we could also find out
1:03.7	what happens when you get an eye exam.
1:06.2	I'm sojata Singh.
1:07.4	I'm the pediatric ophthalmologist
1:09.0	at University of Vermont.
1:10.4	I do eye exams just for kids and also for older adults who have maybe trouble
1:16.7	communicating and also help develop vision for little kids because they're still
1:21.6	learning how to see and that requires a whole
1:24.8	different specialized skills compared to what the adult ophthalmologists have to be skilled in doing.
1:31.2	What does the word ophthalmology mean?
1:33.0	That's such a big and cool word, but you said you're an eye doctor.
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