The honeycomb is probably the most cited example of mathematics in nature. Rows of near-identical hexagonal cells, walls meeting at consistent angles, packed with no wasted space — and produced…
Maya Linton
A grand hotel lobby is a piece of architecture the public was always meant to walk into. These twelve have histories worth knowing and interiors worth seeing, and in most…
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School dinners were an institution with their own architecture, vocabulary and social order, and everybody who went through them remembers the same details. Here are twelve.
1. The Smell…
Try it. Run your fingers along your own ribs, or the sole of your own foot, using exactly the motion that would reduce you to helpless laughter if somebody else…
The Dead Sea Is Not a Sea, and Its Water Is So Dense With Salt That a Human Body Cannot Sink Into It
The Dead Sea produces one of the most recognisable travel photographs there is: a person lying on their back on the surface of the water, reading a newspaper, entirely unsupported.…
Cheese is a preservation technology that turned into a craft. The differences between these twelve come down to a handful of decisions made in the first few hours and then…