1) http://miraulam.multiply.com/video/item/38
Women in Art: An incredible Art History lesson with Yo Yo Ma doing Bach. Absolutely beautiful, morphing video from Michelangelo to Picasso with everyone in between.
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEc4YWICeXk
Women in Film: Bach’s Cello Suite #1 Prelude while morphing through about 80 faces of decades of beautiful women in film.
3) http://www.livescience.com/health/081203-hourglass-figure.html
The Best Female Figure Not an Hourglass: Article on reasons why men don’t always prefer the 0.7 waist to hip ratio.
4) http://www.livescience.com/health/080626-fat-cheeks.html
Cheeky Study Finds Beauty Secret in Cadavers: Article about pushing the boundaries of science. Researchers injected dye and latex into 14 cadavers to find the boundaries of four deeply seated facial fat compartments. All in the interest of making you more beautiful, of course.
5) http://www.plastictastic.com/portal/
PlasticTastic: An entertaining website which posts and discusses the good and bad of celebrity plastic surgery.
6) http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty.aspx
Pretty faces: Easy on the brain?: Article on why attractive faces take less work to process than unattractive ones. The phenomenon may explain why we associate positive attributes with beauty.
7) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/fashion/18skin.html?_r=2
Putting Vanity on Hold: NY Times article about the future of Botox.
8) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/fashion/09skin.html?_r=1&no_interstitial&oref=slogin
The Sum of Your Facial Parts: NY times article about attractiveness and altering facial features.
9) http://www.livescience.com/health/080410-couples-beauty.html
Why Beautiful Women Marry Less Attractive Men: An article by LiveScience explaining the theories behind why men value beauty while women value a supportive husband.
10) http://ansblog.com/2010/02/world-most-beautiful-woman-ever/
World’s Most Beautiful Woman Ever: Computer generated morphed composite of multiple beautiful celebrities to create an ideal.
11) http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/scienceshot-more-than-a-pretty.html?ref=hp
Scienceshot: More than just a Pretty Face? A computer program measures the extent of photoshoping in digital photos.
1) thinctanc from Flickr
2) New York Times 2008
3) Emmalee from the Daily Loaf