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Humans may share a universal sense of beauty in color combinations
Art does more than enrich life. It influences everything, from consumer product choices to stress levels to recovery after surgery. But what makes a piece of art pleasing? On one hand, evaluating art seems to be, well, more of an art than a science. After all, galleries have been tricked into showcasing work by a toddler, and people have paid thousands of dollars for art made by chimpanzees. Still, we know that pleasing aesthetic experiences engage regions of the brain including emotional and self-referential processing centers. Research also suggests that people are universally drawn to certain patterns, special layouts, and conventions such as fractals and symmetry. This may be because…
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Temporary pause on large-scale solar makes sense
Revealed: 2/22/2022 2:02:48 PM Modified: 2/22/2022 2:02:25 PM When the Amherst City Council convenes on Feb. 28, the fate of a short term moratorium on big-scale photo voltaic will be resolved. The moratorium will suspend the progress of any floor-mounted photo voltaic bigger than 250 kilowatt for the following 14 months, unless a photo voltaic bylaw, governing massive scale solar improvement, is designed before then. Amherst should really be commended for going ahead diligently. Together with the site and probable dimension of new arrays, we are entering a new era in Amherst for industrialized solar. Amherst’s earlier photo voltaic projects had been mostly sited on open up land, neither forest…
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