Observer why were watching

He is. Right now he's developing "colourless" paint and teaches at the Royal College of Art, encouraging his students to think about using new technologies in unexpected ways. How's Taylor putting all this theory into practice? At the moment he's giving the humble Hunter Wellington boot a 21st-century revamp, and also making impossibly intricate necklaces using medical steel coils.

He says: "I always ask myself, 'What's the benefit? Is it really making something better? I take a real-life approach to design. Or let our dogs poop in the park and head off before anyone has a chance to notice? All it takes is an image of a pair of human eyes. In their study , the researchers determined the effect of the eyes on individual behavior by controlling for several conditions e. The posters were hung at eye-level and every day the location of each poster was randomly determined.

The researchers found that during periods when the posters of eyes, instead of flowers, overlooked the diners, twice as many people cleaned up after themselves.

In fact, this research builds on a long tradition of psychologists being interested in explaining and stimulating human cooperation in matters of the collective. For example, it would be easier for me to throw my trash on the ground, but if everyone thought that way, we would all be stuck with a huge pile of waste. Somewhat baffled, a number of researchers subsequently conducted a set of experiments that confirmed these initial findings.

Ernest-Jones, Bateson and Nettle sought to better understand the effect of staring-eyes on behavior. This is important because it allowed the researchers to document naturally occurring behavior, providing greater confidence that the results obtained are not merely an artefact of experimentation.

Equally important, it also served to illustrate that the effect of staring-eyes carries across a range of social behaviors. While the researchers have convincingly illustrated that displaying a mere image of human eyes is sufficient to actually alter real-life social behavior, the real question is how. Humans and other animals have a dedicated neural architecture for detecting facial features, including the presence of eyes. Furthermore, the ability to function in social situations hinges on our ability to exploit social information provided by the expressions of the faces and eyes of others.

These two chin-strokers look like they're up to no good. Who are they? They're the founding editors of Ladybeard. What is Ladybeard? A quarterly print-only feminist magazine in the making that "attempts to question how the media makes us look at ourselves and why," say Sadhbh rhymes with five O'Sullivan and Kitty Drake.

Print-only, how old school. Where can I get a copy?