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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.

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Category: Misc.
Posted on: February 7, 2006 11:30 AM, by Tara C. Smith

My 6-year-old daughter has glasses, and yesterday afternoon I took her to the optometrist for her yearly checkup. After initially being a bit skeptical about getting the eye drops to dilate her pupils so her retinas could be visualized, she was won over after seeing the cool pictures of her eyes. She even asked for a printout of the picture, and proceeded to take it to school and point out her optic nerve, blood vessels, and macula to her friends. Yep, that's my girl...

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Those moments are so great. When you see your child discover somethng new (at least to them) that required rational thought by them it reminds you that you have engaged in the job of human making and that you might be doing a decent job of it.

Now if you could only get her to tell her friends that the location of the optic nerve pretty much blows off intelligent design:)

Posted by: CanuckRob | February 7, 2006 11:59 AM

Cool!

Now that's what I call an extreme close-up.

Good opportunity also to point out the backwards wiring of the nerves of the human eye that give optomotrists cause for concern about the retina in the first place.

Posted by: Dave S. | February 7, 2006 1:11 PM

Maybe we'll work on the ID angle next year. :) Maybe get one of those 3D models of the eye. The funniest thing was the look on the doc's face when she asked for a picture of it to take home. Obviously it's not a request he gets very often, especially from a kid.

Posted by: Tara | February 7, 2006 3:30 PM

Now that she's interested in science, do you think you could get her to come and help me out on my PhD! I need someone to dilute the tedium of pollen counting.

Posted by: SteveF | February 8, 2006 5:30 AM

You should see a picture of my eyeball. I have a scar from a nail caused injury.

Posted by: Reed A. Cartwright | February 9, 2006 12:57 PM

Yikes.

Posted by: Tara | February 9, 2006 2:29 PM

Spam! I hate spam!

Posted by: Kristjan Wager | March 28, 2006 3:55 AM

Me too--gone.

Posted by: Tara C. Smith | March 28, 2006 10:16 AM