When the BEAUTY team decided to work on the Best of Beauty awards, I didn’t think it would turn out be such a big thing. Since we are barely two years old, it took us sometime to get going. As an experiment I decided to chat up few of my close girl friends, and some [...]

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From didactic meerkats to inequity-averse monkeys, the same observation applies: each of these animals has evolved an exquisite mind that is adapted to singular problems and is thus limited when it comes to applying skills to novel problems. Not so for us hairless bipeds. Once in place, the modern mind enabled our forebears to explore [...]

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One of our most basic tools, the No. 2 pencil, used by every test taker, illustrates the exceptional freedom of the human mind as compared with the limited scope of animal cognition. You hold the painted wood, write with the lead, and erase with the pink rubber held in place by a metal ring. Four [...]

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