--- title: Five Best: Why You Feel Like You’re Being Watched description: Why you feel like you're being watched, when America fails to lead the world suffers and more. canonical: https://time.com/4782094/why-you-feel-like-youre-being-watched/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-17T16:00:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:51.161Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why You Feel Like You’re Being Watched og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4782094/why-you-feel-like-youre-being-watched/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why You Feel Like You’re Being Watched twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why You Feel Like You’re Being Watched by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 17, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 17, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**If you’ve ever felt like you were being watched, this is why.**](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170512-what-causes-that-feeling-of-being-watched) By Tom Stafford in _BBC Future_ **2\.** [**When America fails to lead, the world suffers.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/opinions/climate-change-global-pessimism-roberts-patrick-opinion/index.html) By Stewart Patrick and Megan Roberts at _CNN_ **3\.** [**To find new ways to treat PTSD, scientists are studying how our brains learn to fear.**](https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/47070) By Iqbal Pittalwala at _University of California, Riverside_ **4\.** [**The world could be out of the fossil fuel car business within a decade.**](http://www.afr.com/business/energy/oil/petrol-cars-will-vanish-in-8-years-says-us-report-from-stanford-economist-20170514-gw4r0u) By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the A_ustralian Financial Review_ **5\.** [**Has Trump given too much power to his generals?**](http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a55065/president-trump-abdicated-commander-in-chief-generals/) By Richard Allen Smith in _Esquire_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4782094/why-you-feel-like-youre-being-watched/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4782094/why-you-feel-like-youre-being-watched/"},"headline":"Why You Feel Like You’re Being Watched","datePublished":"2017-05-17T16:00:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:51.161Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4782094/why-you-feel-like-youre-being-watched/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","PTSD","America","Fossil fuels","trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4782094/why-you-feel-like-youre-being-watched/","name":"Why You Feel Like You’re Being Watched"}}]}] ```