We Can't Look -- and Can't Look Away
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They kneel before the camera. They are rigid with fear. Or they are crying, clearly unhinged, begging for their lives. They are hostages, flanked by masked men who carry swords or AK-47s -- the grim reapers of this age of televised terror.
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America can't forget its economic homework--or face the consequences.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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Sometimes the biggest rewards are hiding out of sight.
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Keynote Kathy Sierra gives designers the antidote for apps that can't read faces, movement, tone or anything: Give users a way to express themselves. Plus: TV panel goes rogue. In Listening Post.
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"It's human nature to look." Sure, but does that make it right?
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The animal can be a revelation of the human, but more often it appears as a contrast than a comforting reflection.
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Life & style: Rebecca Atkinson is going blind. An experimental therapy could offer her the chance to see again - but would she take it?
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Love really is blind, at least when it comes to looking at others, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Genetic breakthroughs and an unlikely drug offer hope for a disease ravaging the eyes of an aging population.
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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They're not obvious, and they're not always cheap.
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If you spend time looking back, you'll miss what's coming up.
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If you look into the eyes of someone who is frightened, your brain will pick up on the fear in a split second, well before you can consciously put a name to the emotion, scientists say.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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Make them stop and stare (for the right reasons).
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None of us are smart enough to understand how these things wind up happening.