Temporary video: Several minutes of bad audio starts at 57:43. Will fix. We nail up the PoCS Manifesto, well, at least project it briefly onto a vertical surface. Science was always heading towards understanding complex systems. The essential task of reductionism took us a while but we now know about atoms and cells and DNA and other building block pieces and codes. Then onwards with scaling, a feature of self-similarity found across (probably) all sufficiently large complex systems. We introduce isometry and allometry and talk about a beautiful example of brain matter scaling. Thinky bits and connnecty bits. Other biological examples of scaling provide a start for our tour. Species numbers, metabolic rates, weightlifting, and cancer rates. Key skill: Back of the envelope calculations. Or front of the Magic Rectangle.

2017/09/01

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