It Remains To Be Seen (Ep. 046)

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In Episode 46 of Out Of My Mind, host Jay Douglas tells the story of those letters on today's eye chart and how Herman Snellen blinded us with science. The post It Remains To Be Seen (Ep. 046) first appeared on The Theater of Your Mind.

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Seriously now, you don't think the letters on an eye chart were chosen randomly. Of course not. They were chosen to embarrass you at the DMV. In Episode 46 of Out Of My Mind, podcast host Jay Douglas tells the story of the invention of the modern-day eye chart and how its inventor, Herman Snellen, blinded us with science.

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