Pre-Oscar ‘Vampire Facelifts’ Highlight Our Culture's Skewed Understanding of Beauty

Before this year's Academy Awards event in Los Angeles, a remarkable uptick in cosmetic surgeries highlighted the radical lengths some are willing ...

Dating Website Excludes "the Riff Raff"

The niche dating site BeautifulPeople.com describes itself as a place where you can "Connect with beautiful men and women in your local area and from ...

Whitney Houston Wondered, "Am I Good Enough?"

Whitney Houston was the most-awarded female recording artists of all time. She seemed to have it all, and yet her friend and costar Kevin Costner shared ...

Mt. Everest's Beauty Defaced by Garbage

On 29 May 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Years ...

Famous Actress on the Pain of Aging

Kristin Scott Thomas, the British-born actress who was nominated for an Oscar (The English Patient), talked about the pressure of growing older in a culture ...

Depression Era Theaters Gave a Glimpse into a New World

In our generation movie theater lobbies are plain but necessary entrances. They are a place where you deposit your ticket or purchase your popcorn, ...

God Is the Most Joyous Being in the Universe

The Christian philosopher Dallas Willard wrote that God is "the most joyous being in the universe." Willard illustrated with the following story:

While ...

Rembrandt Captured the Goodness of Old Age

According to the British art critic Jonathan Jones, many Renaissance artists were "coldly curious" or even cruel in their depictions of old ...

Lady Gaga Admits Her Self-image Struggles

In a 2010 interview with New York magazine, a self-confident Lady Gaga declared,

I believe that everyone can do what I'm doing. Everyone can access the ...

Photographer Documents the Global Beauty Craze

Over a five-year period, photographer Zed Nelson visited seventeen countries as he documented the global craze for beauty. In his book, Love Me, Nelson ...