Appropriate Lighting Makes Skin the Look More Beautiful

What makes bodies beautiful.

Health and beauty are the most important physical ideals. This paper seeks to compare and contrast these ideals, based on a value theory of human abilities. Health is comprehended as a potential ability to act grounded in bodily functions. Beauty is explained as a symbolising reference to happiness, physical beauty as a combination of organic orientation to purpose and virtuous orientation to a...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

From White Noise to Für Elise: What makes music beautiful?

Can an entire symphony be predicted by just one note from just a single instrument in the orchestra? It seems absurd to even ask this question. The power of an orchestral piece is in how the flutes harmonize with the viola, and how the hardness of percussion counters the softness of the winds. The manner in which all of the notes from all of the instruments come together to produce a collective...

Beautiful british parents have more daughters.

The generalized Trivers-Willard hypothesis proposes that parents who possess any heritable trait that increases male reproductive success at a greater rate than female reproductive success in a given environment will have a higher-than-expected offspring sex ratio (more sons), and parents who possess any heritable trait that increases female reproductive success at a greater rate than male repr...

What makes Federer look so elegant?

Everyday we come across thousands of sportsmen in action. Each of them have their own style of play and make varied impressions on the viewers. Despite this expected variability in the impression they make, there are certain inherent qualities of their play like their poise, the economy of their movement, flow of their movement etc. which make some of them more watchable to most of us. For exam...