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Your eyes don't get tired, your blink rate does, and it quits.

means The soreness, dryness, and fatigue that come from staring too long at something — a screen, a page, fine print — without enough breaks.

from A straightforward 19th-century compound of 'eye' plus 'strain,' the same 'strain' you'd use for a pulled muscle — the idea being that eyes, like any overworked body part, could be strained from overuse. It entered common use as close reading, factory inspection, and later electric lighting and screens gave people more reasons to fix their gaze for hours at a time.

blink rate drop
screens cut blinking by up to two thirds
not your eyes
focusing muscles and dry film, not eyeballs, fatigue
20-20-20 rule
every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away, 20 seconds
text size myth
distance and glare matter more than font size
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