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QUESTION to an 11 year old girl: " "Q: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”" "(Pause)" "A: “Well, I think I want to dress up as a tree.”" "UK Channel 4 news, interviews during lockdown, 1-28-21 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this second and last weekend on modular metabolism. This is a particularly insightful article on the topic and is worth a careful read. Even in the nonliving world, the laws of geometry and physics impose modularity and fractal repeats at different scales. Remember when you are flying over mountainous countryside and see periodicity in the watershed patterns? Or the repetitive circular motifs in astronomical bodies and motions? And so it goes on: modularity, it seems, is deeply embedded in Nature. View in LinkedIn

Curious corner in old town Girona that leads to a dark narrow doorway with a tiny atrium reaching to open sky. View in LinkedIn

THE MAGNETOSPHERE OF VENUS. “The the solar wind magnetic field lines are "folded" around Venus, so the plasma flow is directed around the planet. Depending on the balance between internal pressure (exerted by ionospheric plasma) and external pressure (exerted by solar wind plasma), the positions of ionopause and magnetopause vary in altitude.” https://lnkd.in/dVhpP9H View in LinkedIn

“THE CoRoT-7b super-Earth. The atmosphere is made of rocky vapours with a very low pressure (P ⩽ 1.5 Pa), no cloud can be sustained, and no thermalisation of the planet is expected. The dayside is very hot (2474 ± 71 K at the sub-stellar point) while the nightside is very cold (50–75 K). The sub-stellar point is as hot as the tungsten filament of an incandescent bulb, resulting in the melting and distillation of silicate rocks and the formation of a lava ocean.” https://lnkd.in/dDkzNen View in LinkedIn

JUPITER, SATURN AND VENUS. “In contrast to planets like the Earth, Jupiter or Saturn, Venus does not have an intrinsic magnetic field and thus its atmosphere is not protected against the incoming solar wind. However, solar UV radiation ionizes the upper atmosphere creating an ionosphere which in turn interacts with the solar wind ions and the magnetic field carried by the solar wind.” https://lnkd.in/dVhpP9H View in LinkedIn