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Our eyes are closed.

Our eyes are closed.

On moving the penny to see the sun.

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Adam Griffin
Jun 01, 2020
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Have you ever held a penny in front of your face and closed one eye while looking at the sun?

If not recently, I’m sure you have at one point in your life. It’s one of those tricks you’d do as a kid to help grasp the concepts of perspective, distance, and focus. The sun would be so big and bright as to almost not be viewable. But with a squint, a penny, …

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