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Friday's Lake Effect: Adaptive Optics, Teaching Deaf & Blind Children, Morphing Salamanders

Friday on Lake Effect

Learn what the study of eye disease has in common with the study of the stars. Then, whenever things got tough, a disabled Milwaukee woman remembered what her father once told her. An unusual discovery is made in the Sauk River Recreation Area. And, a career turn for legendary musical satirist weird Al Yankovic – we’ll hear about his children’s books.