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In this week’s Please Explain feature, we’ll try to understand how our eyes work. We’ll learn about the component structures of the eye, and find out how the eye takes information in. Dr. William Schiff, Assistant Professor of Clinical Opthamology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Dr. Janet Sparrow, Director of the Retinal Cell Biology Lab and Professor of Opthalmic Science at Columbia University, tell us how light is translated into images, how we perceive color, and how human vision differs from that of other species.

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Music: Sonatine soundtrack by Joseph Hisaishi, #6 and 1