La filosofía natural [la Naturaleza] está escrita en ese libro enorme que tenemos continuamente abierto de­lante de nuestros ojos (hablo del universo), pero que no puede entenderse si no apren­demos primero a comprender la lengua y a conocer los caracteres con que se ha escrito. Está es­cri­to en lengua matemática, y los caracteres son triángulos, círculos y otras figuras geo­mé­tricas sin los cua­les es humanamente imposible entender una palabra; sin ellos se deam­bula en vano por un laberinto oscuro.

Natural philosophy [Nature] is written in this grand book — I mean the Universe — which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering around in a dark labyrinth.

Galileo Galilei. 1618. Il Saggiatore

This map shows the world's croplands. Turns out, a lot of food is produced in a small number of countries.   

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Charles Fréger collected folkloric monsters from Japan: 

Those who dance in hope of a bountiful harvest; those who come down from the mountains to encourage a productive new year; those who comfort the souls of children who have died in famines.

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Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems

Carlos Gershenson

A soil-dwelling nematophagous (nematode-eating) fungus trapping and consuming a pathogenic nematode.

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