Also in the realm of ideas about beauty in nature is that the perfect is implied through perfect mathematical forms and more generally by patterns in nature.

I think that compassion also is often linked to beauty and by that I mean a willingness to see beauty in the other, not just what it is about them that might need helping.

After the imperial court moved the capital to Heian kyō (Kyoto) in 794 the conditions that would form Japanese Geisha culture began to emerge, as it became the home of a beauty obsessed elite.

Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.

And when the mathematics is very simple when in terms of some mathematical notation, you can write the theory in a very brief space, without a lot of complication that's essentially what we mean by beauty or elegance.

The ceramics designer Eva Zeisel looks back on a 75 year career. What keeps her work as fresh today as in 1926? Her sense of play and beauty, and her drive for adventure. Listen for stories from a rich, colorful life.

And Putin has already taken beauty tips from another leading West European Lothario, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, with Putin s 2010 facelift making his visage as smooth as that of the frequently Botoxed Berlusconi.

Darwin explained that such qualities are propagated and enhanced over generations, through the exertion of choice, the influence of love and jealousy, and the appreciation of the beautiful in sound, color, or form. Indeed, while natural selection is blind, sexual selection has an eye for beauty although the nature of beauty is always in the eye of the beholder.