• SuperFormula is a generic geometric transformation equation that encompasses a wide range forms found in nature. Dataisnature points us to some beatiful 3d renderings of the equations including the newest destrukt set in which the Supershapes are broken apart. My primitive 2d thinking brain was instantly reminded of the dynamyte late-nineties work of graffiti phenom Boris Tellegen, a.k.a. Delta. Here are some perfect examples scanned from the book Scrawl, dirty graphics & strange characters: 1 2 3 4.

• PZ Meyers and Chris Clarke sound off on Stephen Hawking’s recent prophesy of humanity’s doom and his accompanying plea for off-world colonies.

• BLDGBLOG on Urban Sound Walks in which specially built headphones receive electromagnetic signals from the environment and transform them into sound, creating an mp3 map of a city’s electromagnetic hot-spots. Listen to them yourself at Cabinet.

• The Style of Numbers Behind a Number of Styles in which stylometry, the mathematical analysis of litterature, is looked at in terms of its application to the visual arts.

• The Daily Growler offers a nice, in-depth piece on Erik Satie. Via.

• Reaserchers are surprised to find that women’s brains react so fast to erotic images, the common wisdom being that men respond more strongly to sexual imagery. (Sure the women’s brain reacted strongly but what the researchers failed to recognize was the particulars of the reaction involved: namely the activation of the highly developed “must obsessively compare that bitch’s body to my own” region of the female brain.)