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Study looks at how people gauge the beauty of math

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From the Yale University press release: A beautiful landscape painting, a beautiful piano sonata — art and music are almost exclusively described in terms of aesthetics, but what about math? Beyond useful or brilliant, can… 

Study suggests experience of beauty requires one to think

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From the Cell Press press release: Does the experience of beauty require a person to think? And can sensuous pleasures, like eating or sex, be beautiful? Such questions have long preoccupied philosophers, with Immanuel Kant… 

Emotions in the age of Botox

From the Sissa Medialab media release: Botulin injections in the facial muscles, which relax expression lines and make one’s skin appear younger as a result of a mild paralysis, have another, not easily predictable effect: they… 

Body image strongly linked to overall life satisfaction

From the Chapman University media release: Chapman University has just published the results of a national study on the factors linked to satisfaction with appearance and weight. In a survey of more than 12,000 Americans adults,…