Plutarch, who stressed Cleopatra's conversation and the musicality of her voice over her looks ("She tuned her tongue like a many-stringed instrument expertly to whatever language she chose"), also began the debate over whether she was in fact truly beautiful, a topic that still fascinates historians and The National Enquirer.
But when a breaking news topic, beautiful place or big event catches our eye, we should be able to summon more about it right away.
Topic A: beautiful girls, like the tennis-playing blonde Maria Sharapova.
In a news media arena where an actress like Keira Knightley is taken to task for her bony angularity while Ms. Hendricks of "Mad Men" is fetishized for her throwback curves, it is clear that the topic of how beautiful women eat has become something of a chronic national obsession.
Panels included From Lokshen to Lo Mein: The Jewish Love Affair with Chinese Food, Beautiful Blogs, Food as a Topic of Academic Pursuit, The Business Of Food, and Sustainable Cuisine, which featured sustainable sushi from Miya's Sushi.
And so, the real beauty of both books does not rely on the scientific topics themselves (as beautiful as they may be), but rather on the clever and creative ways the authors meld all scientific disciplines into one seamless story.
BEIJING — Perhaps topics like the beautiful moll of a multiple-murdering hoodlum just shot dead by police will always fascinate more than politics — even issues that bristle with anger like territorial sovereignty.
Ask Christian Lindholm to peer into the future of the mobile industry, and he'll dish out opinionated takes on topics ranging from beautiful phones to broken business models.
Beauty is a subjective topic, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that would say the Xbox One is particularly beautiful.
The story also contains Poe's often-used theme of the death of a beautiful woman, which he called the "most poetical topic in the world".
