Here’s a completely non-storage related topic that I found fascinating. Science writer Brandon Keim’s story in Wired today reports that beauty is experienced differently by men and women. Summarizing findings from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the article states:
“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.”
Hard to say whether these prelimary findings will be reinforced by further study, but the potential for unlocking this difference–which seems to match common experience–is very interesting. Thoughts?
I wonder, do they ever include transgenders in these studies?