Beauty is ova-rated

What is Beauty?

So what is beauty? First let me perhaps surprise you by stating that beauty can be defined numerically:1.6180339887. That is beauty that is the golden ratio (fig 1). It was described by the Pythagorean mathematicians, as they kept seeing this ratio in things regarded as beautiful, and it was first written down by Euclid, and can be expressed either as a linear relationship or as a shape, in eit...

Reproductive technology and stolen ova: who is the mother?

“beauty Is the Promise of Happiness”*?

We measure the impact of individuals’ looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using four data sets, the Quality of American Life surveys from the 1970s, the British National Child Development Study, and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey, we construct the beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty. Personal beauty raises happiness, wit...

Truth Is Beauty: Researching Embodied Conversational Agents

(1941) argues that the sole criterion for excellent research is that the researcher produces " beauty. " While seemingly ineffable and frustratingly imprecise, Hardy instead suggests that creating beauty is straightforward. First, the work must be accurate: erroneous results are useless. Second, one's peers must recognize the work to be interesting, exciting, elegant, and " cool. " While this s...

Judy Benjamin is a Sleeping Beauty 1

Consider vanFraassen’s Judy Benjamin (JB) problem (1981). The terrain is divided into four quadrants defined by Blue (B) and Red (R) territories and Second Company (S) and a headQuarters (Q) areas. These territories and areas define four quadrants, as in Figure 1 (roman script headings). Judy initially believes that there is an equal chance of being in each quadrant. She is then told by a fully...