Aesthetic Intelligence: Cultivating the Muscle of Creativity
America Has Been Here Before. Here's How We Recovered.
Social Media is De-Skilling Us. Here’s How.
Einstein’s Secret: The Questions Only a Child Would Ask
Why Are We Blind to Beauty? A Scientist’s Wake-Up Call
Re-Opening Your Heart
Rejection Isn’t Real
Beauty as Path to Justice
Learning from Those We Serve
Healing-Centered Education
Build a more beautiful work life in 2025 #beauty #workbook #shorts
Rebuilding Trust
Francis Collins on The Road to Wisdom
Dealing with Our Spiritual Predicament
Existential Distress Tolerance
How Big Questions Can Connect Generations
Is Kuhn a Theist or an Atheist?
Why We Need to Understand Consciousness
Can Uncertainty Improve AI?
Two Types of Expertise
What Makes Something Beautiful?
How Is Art Both Subjective and Objective?
MIT Physicist Alan Lightman Explains Why We Need to Cultivate Gratitude
MIT Physicist Explains Why Darshan with the Sublime Matters
Creating Communities That Transform Us
Why Culture Matters
When Rocket Software CEO Rocked the Stage with Guitar Solo
Can Beauty Help Us Overcome Loneliness?
Finding Beauty in Loneliness
Treetop Barbie
Speaking for the Trees
Why We’re Becoming More Nostalgic
Nostalgia Doesn’t Isolate Us
We Need Beauty to Survive
The Surprising Value of Beauty in Science
Why Beauty Matters in University Education
Season 3 Announcement
The Beauty of the James Webb Space Telescope
How Science-Art Integration Can Elicit Awe
Why Did the Ancients Value Beauty in Architecture? #shorts
How Does Architecture Enable Transcendence? #shorts
Why is Beauty Important in Architecture? #shorts
The Ethics of AI #shorts
Using AI as a Force for Good #shorts
Artificial vs Human Intelligence: What’s the Difference? #shorts
Is AI Going to Take Over the World? #shorts
My Profoundly Disabled Sister Teaches Me Life's Greatest Lessons
Why Does an Orchestra Need a Conductor? #shorts
What is beauty? How does it work? And why does it matter for the work that we do?
I'm Brandon Vaidyanathan, and I'm a professor of sociology at The Catholic University of America in Washington DC.
We tend to reduce beauty to cosmetics or fashion. Or restrict it to high art. But there's much more to beauty than that. Beauty is how reality attracts us. And whether we like it or not, beauty shapes our lives in countless ways.
In this channel, I want to expand our understanding of beauty.
Through interviews with experts from diverse fields, this channel examines how beauty works -- how it shapes our personal, social, and spiritual lives in ways that may both contribute to and impede our flourishing.
What we learn here will help us to better harness the potential for beauty to contribute to our flourishing, while avoiding its perils and pitfalls.
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