{"id":2958,"date":"2013-03-02T22:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T03:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/03\/wired-for-beauty\/"},"modified":"2013-03-02T22:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T03:59:04","slug":"wired-for-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/03\/wired-for-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired For Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/why-we-love-beautiful-things.html?_r=0\" target=\"_self\">article<\/a> in the NEW YORK TIMES by Lance Hosey on &quot;Why We Love Beautiful Things.&quot; Turns out we may be genetically wired to respond positively to natural beauty.&#0160; We&#39;ve written about this before, passing along a thesis found in the book &quot;The Art Instinct&quot; which made a similar claim.&#0160; Here&#39;s an excerpt from the TIMES article:<\/p>\n<p><em>Certain patterns also have universal appeal. Natural fractals \u2014 irregular, self-similar geometry \u2014 occur virtually everywhere in nature: in coastlines and riverways, in snowflakes and leaf veins, even in our own lungs. In recent years, physicists have found that people invariably prefer a certain mathematical density of fractals \u2014 not too thick, not too sparse. The theory is that this particular pattern echoes the shapes of trees, specifically the acacia, on the African savanna, the place stored in our genetic memory from the cradle of the human race. To paraphrase one biologist, beauty is in the genes of the beholder \u2014 home is where the genome is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017c373f2d09970b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3073\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b017c373f2d09970b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017c373f2d09970b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"3073\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating article in the NEW YORK TIMES by Lance Hosey on &quot;Why We Love Beautiful Things.&quot; Turns out we may be genetically wired to respond positively to natural beauty.&#0160; We&#39;ve written about this before, passing along a thesis found in the book &quot;The Art Instinct&quot; which made a similar claim.&#0160; Here&#39;s an excerpt from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}