How to Be a Naturalist, Right?

i was thinking back about what karena had said about el wilson, how he was so enamoured of his aunts. And got me thinking about how all of us in science have our own favorite creature, our favorite equations. They're just those, those little somethings that are so special to us because they often illustrate much bigger principles. The joy of x is a podcast project of quanta magazine. We my for tels bthe next time on the joy of X, john herschell solves a puzzle, how to play for the nfl and be a mathematician.