Scientists Are Heart-Monitoring Art Audiences
In the Stendhal syndrome, works of art are so powerful that they cause a physical reaction. Scientists, ever skeptical, are setting up heart monitors to test the truth of this theory. Unfortunately, they're setting up somewhere boring! But where to go? What makes the contemporary heart flutter?
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