Jezebel: Big Eyes

Anime Lenses Promise Wide-Eyed Look • Stay-At-Home Moms Hurt By Economy

Maria — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:30:00 EDT

Girls and boys who covet the extra-large eyes of anime characters can now fake it with "extra-wide" contacts that make the eye's iris look larger. • Getting a regular pap smear is more effective against cervical cancer than Gardasil as new studies begin to doubt the vaccine's effectiveness versus its expense. • A gender discrimination complaint filed by two men against a Swedish government-run pharmacy that sold sex toys catering mostly to women by selling dildos and "vagina balls" was overruled. • Should women tell their coworkers that they are menopausal? • A 93-year-old debut novelist will use the profits from her feminist thriller, A Dangerous Weakness to move her friends and herself out of care homes. • More »

Bette Davis Eyes

maria — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:45:00 EDT

Do you have big eyes? Apparently monkeys are really into them. A recent study at the University of Bremen, Germany has found that macaque monkeys have the most brain cell attention focused on the size of the iris of different faces. The more extreme the iris size, the bigger the reaction of the brain cells. There were also 19 other features of the face that different brain cells responded to, but the cells dedicated to eye size were the most numerous. I guess this explains MRirian's huge macaque monkey following on YouTube. [Scientific American] More »

Kate Hudson Gets Creative; Heather Locklear Goes Lifetime

Jessica G. — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:40:00 EST

*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories