Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return ...

Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call “beautiful” or “aesthetic” are a crucial part of our humanity. Even the oldest known examples of rock and cave art served aesthetic rather than utilitarian ...

From thunderous mountain landscapes viewed from above to the erratic trajectories of Brownian motion, fractal patterns exist at many scales in nature. Physicists believe that fractals also exist in ...

A team of scientists from Princeton University has measured the energies of electrons in a new class of quantum materials and has found them to follow a fractal pattern. Fractals are self-repeating ...

A cross section of a fractal pattern, created by a laser in the Wits Structured Light Laboratory. Wits University We all appreciate the beauty of Nature, whether it be cloud patterns, mountain ranges ...

In the final chapter of our book*, we briefly discussed the impact of fractal patterns on stress. That's important because stress can interfere with our ability to experience happiness. Yet, what is ...

In mathematics, simple equations can generate a complex evolution in time and intriguing patterns in space. One famous example of this is the Mandelbrot set, named after the French-American ...

This post is by Sarah Collins Lench, the Director of Policy and Innovation at the Educational Policy Improvement Center in Eugene, Oregon. This is not another education think piece on “measuring what ...

In the final chapter of our book*, we briefly discussed the impact of fractal patterns on stress. That's important because stress can interfere with our ability to experience happiness. Yet, what is ...