Why do we need glasses?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How do glasses work? Why do some people need glasses and other people don’t? Why do we have different eye colors? We answer your questions about glasses and eyes in the second of two episodes with Dr. Sujata Singh, a pediatric ophthalmologist at the University of Vermont Medical Center. And we hear from Maggie, a kid with low vision, about what it’s like to need glasses.
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| 0:00.0 | It's |
| 0:02.0 | Icy grip, but some of our favorite summer birds have already |
| 0:08.0 | started moving north towards us, |
| 0:10.0 | and they'll be here sooner than we think. |
| 0:12.0 | How do birds know when to migrate? and they'll be here sooner than we think. |
| 0:13.0 | How do birds know when to migrate? |
| 0:15.0 | Stick around after this episode to learn more about migratory birds |
| 0:19.0 | and how you can bring but why to the classroom. This is, but why, a podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public. |
| 0:46.7 | I'm Jane Lindholm and I host this show. |
| 0:49.1 | On But Why, we take questions from curious kids all over the world and we find interesting people to answer |
| 0:54.7 | them. In our last episode we started learning all about how our eyes work and if they're actually |
| 1:00.8 | shaped like balls. And as we were making the episode I got an eye exam from a pediatric ophthalmologist, |
| 1:07.8 | a specialized eye doctor for kids named Sujada Singh. |
| 1:11.8 | Dr Singh is back for this episode, |
| 1:14.0 | and today we're going to learn a little bit more about the ways |
| 1:16.6 | glasses can help some of us see better. |
| 1:19.7 | Did you know that one out of every four kids in the United States wears glasses? |
| 1:25.0 | Sometimes instead of glasses, as people get older, they choose to wear small flexible lenses called contact lenses |
| 1:32.0 | that actually fit right over and on top of your eyeball. |
| 1:35.0 | Are you one of the many people who need glasses? |
| 1:38.0 | I am. I started wearing glasses in high school and the two other people who make but why with me |
| 1:43.9 | Melody Bodette and Kiana Haskin also started wearing glasses when they were |
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