Beauty Affects Men's and Women's Brains Differently

Spain's Universitat de les Illes Balears conducted a study that found that men's and women's brains react differently to beauty. Via Wired.

"In men, images they consider to be beautiful appear to activate brain regions responsible for locating objects in absolute terms — x- and y-coordinates on a grid. Images considered beautiful by women do the same, but they also activate regions associated with relative location: above and behind, over and under. The difference could be the result of evolutionary pressures on our hunter-gatherer ancestors."

Both sexes processed coordinates, but only women processed categories.

Darwin — An Amazing Discussion

I had posted this previously, but I am going to give this special program its own place.

The biologists E.O. Wilson and James Watson appeared on the Charlie Rose program in 2005 to discuss Charles Darwin. I remember being in the kitchen half-listening, and then bolting to view the television set, mesmerized, for the entire hour.

Without a doubt, this is the absolute best piece of television I have ever seen. Please enjoy.

If you like this, you might also be fascinated, as I am, by The Charlie Rose Science Series: thirteen episodes featuring the likes of Dr. Aaron Beck, Dr. George Daley, Dr. Peter Kwong, Dr. Leonard Guarente, Dr. Eric Kandel, and numerous other great scientists.