
The Universal Laws of Life | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 1 (WiM144)
The "What is Money?" Show
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The Question of Scale
Galileo asked the question, could you have infinitely tall trees or infinitely tall buildings? And he found out that it was impossible. He also discovered that a city twice the size had twice as many patent bin producers and innovated twice as much. The idea of scale has permeated all of science and technology ever since.
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