December 16

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

... that mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein (16 December 1905 – 17 April 1996) proposed the use of superellipses in architecture, and that superellipses consequently become a hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture?

... that Steeping Beauty is a classic fairy tale about a princess who is cursed by an evil fairy to sleep until a cup of tea is fully steeped?

Topic of the Day

Diseases