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An exciting story from an ancient period, but one detail in particular catches the eye of the tourists: Laocoön's penis is extremely small ... probably have caused aesthetic horror.

Archaeologists now have a better understanding of why ritual tooth removal was practiced in ancient Taiwan and other ... procedure was cosmetic — for "aesthetic expression," the researchers ...

But it’s actually an ancient idea. For hundreds of years, Japan’s dominant aesthetic has been wabi sabi, which values the impermanent, imperfect, and incomplete. You know wabi sabi ...