Scale

Metabolic Scaling in Forests

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Megafauna, the Missing Link

Megafauna Impact Theory: A Paradigm Shift in Ecosystem Dynamics (scitechdaily.com) Whales are the engineers of their ecosystems (whalescientists.com)

A Quarky Physicist Walks into a Particular Universe As An Actor

Mysterious Materialism | Do the Math (ucsd.edu)

Major Changes or a Bleak Future for Homo sapiens

Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse” | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com)

Science and Awe

Wonder at work: the joy of discovery helps scientists flourish (nature.com)

The 6th Great Extinction, in the Shadow of Homo

Peter Brannen: “Deep Time, Mass Extinctions, and Today” | The Great Simplification

Topology of Neuron Networks: the Patterns of Logarithms, Musical Rhythms, Patterns

Neurons in The Brain Appear to Follow a Distinct Mathematical Pattern : ScienceAlert

Human Flourishing and CO2 Flux to the Global Atmosphere

Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita vs. Human Development Index, 2021 (ourworldindata.org)  

US Population Density Map From a Decade Ago

Deep Time

50 years ago, scientists thought they had found Earth’s oldest rocks (sciencenews.org) Single cell life, on Earth has been in existence for 3.7 billion years 17,000 times longer than the recent faith that creation was 6000 years ago. The…