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Scaling 1: Why do we live longer than mice?

Simplifying Complexity

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The Relationship Between the Number Three Quarters and the Number One Quarter

When you plot some logarithmically, they line up very closely on a straight line. They all have slopes that are simple multiples of the number one quarter. It says that in terms of the way nature scales from the smallest to the largest, it's completely dominated by this extraordinarily simple number One Quarter. The number four is actually determining basically the biosphere around us.

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