Oscar Wilde lamented his room's decor on his deathbed, prompting reflections on beauty and recent neuroscience research.
"This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go."
- The famous last words of Oscar Wilde the aesthete, on his deathbed in Paris and appalled by the ugliness of his room's décor.
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Turning away for the moment from contemplation of the ugliness of Opposition Leader Angus Taylor's attempts to demonise migrants, I have been learning of beautiful new research being done into the brain's responses to beauty.
My daily feed from the Smithsonian Magazine has just fed me the enthralling article titled Does The Experience of Beauty Show Up In The Brain?.