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A new Dove ad illustrates stark differences between our perceptions of ourselves and the way others see us. Via Don L. Price 
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New Israeli research suggests attractive people are more likely to have conformist and self-centered values.
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Beauty of the Butterfly Egg: Insects have been around for at least 300 million years.
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We all know what objects are: they are things, stuff we can identify. But what about non-objects? What does that even mean?
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Body mass index and waist: hip ratio are not enough to characterise female attractiveness. Articles about BEAUTY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=beauty
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England says that, according to science, Florence Colgate does have the perfect face. Articles about BEAUTY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=beauty
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Having attractive friends will make you more popular on Facebook, especially if you are a woman, according to a new study that takes Charles Darwin into the domain of cyber networking. Articles about FACEBOOK: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=facebook
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Boarding an aircraft can be a frustrating experience, with passengers often wondering if they will ever make it to their seats. But Alexei Borodin, a professor of mathematics at MIT, can predict how long it will take for you to board an airplane, no matter how long the line. That’s because Borodin studies difficult probability problems, using sophisticated mathematical tools to extract precise information from seemingly random groups.
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Evidence from all over the world suggests that men strongly prefer women who have a lot of body fat (roughly 30 percent of their body weight) and whose body fat is distributed in a particular way, with very little in the waist but much more in the hips, buttocks and thighs, producing a small waist-hip ratio. Why have men evolved to prefer such high levels of fat--more than bears settling down to hibernate or whales swimming in frigid waters? And even if it could be explained how more fat makes a better mom, why would it matter where she stored it; what is the message contained in a low waist-hip ratio? So this male preference actually consists of two nested psychological puzzles.
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What I would really like to know is this: Can the fundamental insight—the destructive, creative virtue of simplicity—be transposed from the realm of scientific explanation into culture or onto the level of conscious experience? What kind of formal simplicity would make our culture a deeper, more beautiful culture? And what is an elegant mind?
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How do you define beauty? What are the factors that govern whether or not you find someone physically attractive? This question has plagued philosophers and artists for millennia. And now, modern scientists think they're close to finding that magical formula for physical beauty. Aside from the obvious cues,--youthfulness, smooth skin, bright eyes--it pretty much all comes down to math.
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Edward Aten of Swift.fm noticed a shift in priorities this year. Visual experiences are starting to become the gold standard of web success; the successful web companies of 2011 and beyond are just simply better looking.
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If designers understood more about the mathematics of attraction, the mechanics of affection, all design could both look good and be good for you.
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When people have conventions of beauty so thoroughly solidified through photos, television, and other media involving no real human interaction, it likely strengthens our objective notions of beauty and weakens the influence of subjective factors.
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Welcome to the brave new world of Machine Beauty, where our new willingness to replace our limbs with superior prosthetic devices hints at our technological future as a species. Maybe futurist Ray Kurzweil was right after all when he predicted the merging of man and machine within our lifetime as part of the great Singularity.
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“What exactly is beauty?”, is an old and unanswered question. It is one of those fringe qualia of consciousness – not a perception but a feeling, like familiarity or certainty, which is attached to a perception. But the criteria for this feeling has never been settled. A recent paper by Ishizu and Zeti (citation below) looks for the traces of beauty in the brain. Articles about BEAUTY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=beauty
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Many people believe that girls idolize Barbie and see her as a physical ideal -- but what does the research say? Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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According to a new study, images of the left side of the human face are perceived as more pleasant than of the right side of the face.
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According to a recent survey of two thousand women, a staggering 25 percent would rather win America’s Next Top Model than a Nobel Prize. Picking beauty over brains might be a bit shallow, but is it also a bad choice? In other words: is being attractive a blessing or a curse?
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He hopes to apply the emerging field of neuroaesthetics to applications in building and design...
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(Medical Xpress) -- Having a healthy skin colour is more important in determining how attractive a man is to women than how manly they look.
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Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician — celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.
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You know it's tough out there when fashion and beauty executives think that even a model's body isn't good enough to sell clothes or that a celebrity's natural face isn't up to par, even with makeup.
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Back in 2006, Dan Christensen did something rather simple and got a surprisingly complex and interesting result. He took a whole bunch of polynomials with integer coefficients and drew their roots as points on the complex plane. The patterns were astounding!
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