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Daniel Nest's avatar

Andrew, the human ambassador to all other species. Rumor has it he's still out there, figuring out ways to shake a spider's hand. Do you shake all 8 legs? Do you pick the dominant one? How do you know which one is the dominant one?! No time for questions, gotta move on to the next critter!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Let's go with a little hands-clasped namaste bow.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

Seems like a reasonable choice!

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Nature has led us down the path to many maths. Throw in Fractals and Logarithms in addition to Exponential as we try to figure it all out

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Fractals are fascinating! I listened to Benoit Mandelbrot's "The Misbehavior of Markets." It was powerful stuff, and I understood about half of it, I think.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Had not heard of fractals being applied to markets! I'll look for that. I like Fractal patterns in nature like the crazy cool Escher-esque Romanesco Broccoli

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Andrew Smith's avatar

I love the efficiency of mother nature. So cool.

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Joyce Wycoff's avatar

When you're not busy shaking all those hands, please tell me how that first single cell crossed the divide from not-life to life.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Joyce, I tried here: https://goatfury.substack.com/p/life

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Joyce Wycoff's avatar

crystals … hmmm … definitely something to think about

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Carol O's avatar

Sent off today’s post to parents of grsons.

Most intoxicating reading with graphics to consider w smiles … such gifts you offer !

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Thanks so much, Carol! I hope they really enjoy it. :)

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Carol O's avatar

A consensus of conjecture 🤗… BEAUTIFUL 💕🎶

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