Favourite TED Videos - Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty

Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty

Educating! Explores a whole new point of view on the subject of beauty and its origins

Favourite Quotes:
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? No! Its deep in our minds, its a gift handed down from the intelligent skills and rich emotional lives of our most ancient ancestors. Our powerful reaction to images, to the expression of emotion in art, to the beauty of music, to the night sky - will be with us and our descendants will be with us for as long as the human race exists

Favourite TED Videos - Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure

Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure

Favourite Quotes:
The mind is its own place,
and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell,
a Hell from Heaven