Beauty By Numbers

It’s Where Lapis Waters Meet Sandy Shores, Where Beyoncé Filmed “Drunk In Love,” Where Models Seem To Spend Many Of Their Waking Hours. A Numerical Glance At The Romantic Capital Of Our Cultural Imagination, The Beach.

75 quintillion: Grains of sand in the world, according to an estimate from—where else?— the University of Hawaii. (That’s significantly more than its estimate of the number of stars in the sky.)