Mary's Monday Metazoan: Brilliant Bees

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I found this lovely portrait on Wikipedia. 18th century portraits almost exclusively show people with European looks. But here a Russian painter has painted a Kalmyk girl in 1767.
Neuroesthetics seeks to identify the neural basis of aesthetic experience - how does the brain give rise to the perception of beauty?
Check out the Scienceblogger group portrait! It's clickable and it's cool! It also appears in the December/January issue of Seed Magazine, which you can get for free if you subscribe to Seed (thus getting 7 issues for the price of 6).