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In the season of the recycling of biological matter, there is something lovely about fungus on fungus, ecosystem successions in a natural order. View in LinkedIn

100 CLOUDS. "Not all genera have all species, and not all species have all varieties, but in all there are about 100 combinations. In additional to the first three levels of classification, certain supplementary features and accessory clouds are also defined." https://lnkd.in/duyznjv View in LinkedIn

CLOUD TYPES. "Ten cloud genera are subdivided into 14 species (secondary classifications), which describe shape and internal structure, and 9 varieties (tertiary classifications), which describe the transparency and arrangement of clouds." https://lnkd.in/duyznjv View in LinkedIn

ON CHAOS AND ORDER. On the crystal formation theme and order emerging from chaos in phase changes of inert molecules, we see the same phenomena in clouds, and of course, in the inanimate planetary universe, such as the concentric rings of Saturn. Immutable physical laws acting on macroscopic matter. Ilya Prigogine, the Nobel winning chemist, made a brilliant career on the topsy-turvey thought that chaos is critical for the development of order, or oder through fluctuation. https://lnkd.in/dDHtwje View in LinkedIn

PATTERNS. “The nonliving universe is as diverse and as dynamic as the living universe, and is also dominated by patterns of organization that are not yet understood. This picture of living creatures, as patterns of organization rather than collections of molecules, applies also to sand dunes and snowflakes, thunderstorms and hurricanes.” https://lnkd.in/dts5S86 View in LinkedIn

CLOUDS. Every time I fly, I am impressed by the cloudscapes, and their orderly forms composed of disorderly vapor molecules. It is a grand self-assembly of innate materials, following some rigid physical laws. Given that weather systems are infinitely chaotic on one level, why do we have only ~100 cloud types? https://lnkd.in/dxRTsaW View in LinkedIn

A NEW SECTION STARTS on the subject of the biology and ecology of clouds. This layer of planet Earth is just a fluffy blanket, and for centuries we considered it to be as sterile as mother’s milk, but both assumptions turned out wrong. Life ‘will find a way’, is a famous quote from Jurassic Park. We have only just started to scratch the surface of microbial life, which seems to have no limits for its habitats. The door is opening in surprising ways. View in LinkedIn

An excellent tree gall — think wasps, eggs, growth hormone injections. View in LinkedIn

Iron veins in local stone. View in LinkedIn