Joseph Dalton Hooker
Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was one of the founders of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend.
Paolo Uccello
Paolo Uccello was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art.
Frances Glessner Lee
Frances Glessner Lee was a millionaire heiress who revolutionized the study of crime scene investigation. She founded Harvard's department of legal medicine, the first program in the nation for forensic pathology.
Angel flares
A geometric design caused by the vortices of an aircraft swirling the smoke from its anti-missile flares.
Sea Shadow (IX-529)
Sea Shadow (IX-529) is an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved. It was the inspiration behind Elliot Carver's stealth ship in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
Wim Rietveld
Wim Rietveld was a Dutch industrial and furniture designer.
Zocchihedron
Zocchihedron is the trademark of a 100-sided die invented by Lou Zocchi, which debuted in 1985. It took three years for Zocchi to design his die, and three more years to get it into production.
Dowsing
Dowsing is a type of divination that is claimed to be able to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of earth radiation, without the use of scientific apparatus.
Megaplumes
Imagine volcanoes that erupt with giant spinning plumes filled with microbes and other life that spin like a discus for months. Welcome to the strange, almost completely unknown life of undersea eruptions.
Walter Pater
Walter Pater's Imaginary Portraits, first published in 1887, are not biographies, but fictionalized accounts of historic figures, written by this esteemed nineteenth-century scholar of Renaissance art and literature. Each shares a common search for a new aesthetic, a pursuit of beauty that anticipated the modern movement in prose and poetry and helped to define aesthetics in the twentieth century.