Stop the nastiness already, Biology doesn’t have to dictate our emotions
The Ugliness of Jealousy If any of you have taken a basic evolutionary biology course at some point in your lives, you know what’s at the heart of so much “female-on-female” jealousy. While women are...
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Amanda Knox In my continual quest to dig deeply into our complex relationship with beauty (beautiful things and beautiful people), I found another story about the disadvantages of being beautiful....
View ArticleWhy We Are Attracted to Art From a Neuroscience POV
From a scientific and evolutionary point of view, we are attracted to art. But why? The beauty of the person I can understand. According to most theories out there we are attracted to bodies that...
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What are the defining aesthetic categories of our age? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/stone-links-beauty-in-our-time/ What do Cleopatra and modern women have in common?...
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Came across some great beauty-in-culture reading this week. Have a read: Beauty is serious business, especially where science is concerned...
View ArticleCan the Difference between Heavy and Thin Come Down to a few letters?
According to a recent article in the New York Times, our brains respond to sweet things but not always in the same way. A research study by the University of Southern California’s Keck School of...
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