Template:Are You Sure/May 2

• ... that biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948) was a pioneer of mathematical biology; and that his book On Growth and Form (1917) led the way for the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns are formed in plants and animals; and that Thompson's lyrical explication of the mathematical beauty of nature has charmed countless scientists and artists, including Alan Turing, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Salvador Dalí, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jackson Pollock, and Richard Hamilton?

• ... that polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) was one of the first people to observe microorganisms through a microscope, and that Kircher was ahead of his time in proposing that the plague was caused by an infectious microorganism and in suggesting effective measures to prevent the spread of the disease?

• ... that the deep scattering layer is a layer in the ocean consisting of millions of marine organisms was discovered through sonar, as ships found a layer that scattered the sound and was thus sometimes mistaken for the seabed, and that the layer includes larger numbers of small mesopelagic fish with swimbladders that reflect sonar, and that the layer is deeper when the moon is out, and can become shallower when clouds pass over the moon?

• ... that mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and academic John Winthrop (1714–1779) attempted to explain the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 as a scientific (rather than religious) phenomenon, and that Winthrop was a pioneer of seismology, applying mathematical computation to earthquake activity?

• ... that British academic Colin Darch was accidentally held hostage by a group of Wisconsin cosplay pirates in 2013?

• ... that the film Doctor Sleep 2: The Dream of Running Water was filmed entirely inside a working pizzeria bathroom?