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The notion of beauty invokes awe, pleasure, aspiration; we are taken outside of ourselves and returned. Painter Emily Eveleth and Senior Software Engineer at Google and Visiting Researcher at the Broad Institute David Tester, explore the idea of beauty and how it resonates and overlaps in both of their worlds. As a way to focus this huge topic they will look at aspects of truth, pattern and ambiguity. In her book Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty Harvard professor, Nancy Etcoff posits this: "Beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism, but instead is in our biology. It's an essential and ineradicable part of human nature that is revered and ferociously pursued in nearly every civilization--and for good reason. Those features to which we are most attracted are often signals of fertility and fecundity." The Broad Institute is generously hosting this program, which promises to be a fascinating evening.
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