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a conspiracy between your eyes and your biology to make survival feel like fate
means the quality in a person, thing, or experience that gives intense pleasure to the senses or the mind, especially through harmony of form or color.
from From Old French 'beaute,' descended from Latin 'bellus,' meaning fine, pretty, or handsome — itself thought to be a softened, affectionate form of 'bonus,' good. So at the root, beauty is simply goodness made visible, the well-made and the well-pleasing sharing a single ancestor.
- symmetry myth
- perfectly symmetrical faces look eerie, even unsettling
- golden ratio
- its facial role is largely debunked pseudoscience
- averageness wins
- faces blended from many rate as more attractive
- fast judgment
- brains assess attractiveness in 13 milliseconds
- halo effect
- beautiful people are assumed kinder and smarter
miss universe — annual global pageant since 1952 with contestants from 70+ countries
miss world — international beauty pageant founded 1951, held in different countries yearly
venus de milo — ancient greek statue, louvre museum, 130-100 bce, iconic symbol of beauty
golden ratio — mathematical proportion 1.618 found in nature and considered aesthetically perfect