"...how he came to devise fractal geometry, the notion that the much of the natural world is organized according to elegant and predictable mathematical principles."

Awesome.

You're very confused.

It may be ugly, but it sounds like you're the kind of person the stairs would make more aesthetically pleasing.

But imagine how irritating it'd be if the ground floor were full. You'd drive up to the next level, only to find you're back on the ground floor again!

It might be analogous, actually. If you think of a flat ribbon making a figure of eight, I don't think you can turn it into a simple band. I think you get a Moebius strip but with 2 half-twists rather than 1. This bridge looks like a flat figure of eight but with more loops. If you tried to turn it into a band, I…

Is the Jennifer Lawrence thing just third wave feminists trying to make some kind of retarded point?

Wait. So was this a valid explanation or not? Because in modern times we know about plate tectonics, which also explains things like this.

Had a laugh at the BBC article on this, which marvelled at the degree to which Earth was dwarfed by Saturn and its rings.

I'm a bit bemused by somebody who considers extrapolating from the biology of dogs to the biology of ants to be a sound logical manoeuvre. Do you suspect that sponges have personalities, too..?

Octopuses is correct. Pluralising octopus to octopi is an error based on an incorrect etymology. The only reason it's accepted in some dictionaries is because so many people made the error that it became common parlance. How do ya feel now?

Such original wit.

"First, they painted individual ants, giving each a series of colors to distinguish each ant, then decided to test them by ripping their homes to shreds"

That's a bit of an exaggeration, considering Galileo could only see Saturn well enough to discern that it had some kind of "ears".

Man, I knew I wasn't crazy thinking Bastille were lame! They were the headliners for a big outdoor party I went to. After ten minutes of standing around marvelling at their inability to get the crowd enthused, I slipped away to spend the next hour being served by a practically private free champagne stall and watching…

The Jatravartid people of Viltvodle Six firmly believe that the entire Universe was, in fact, sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure. They live in perpetual fear of the time they call ‘The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief’.

I've seen worse drawings sell for thousands of dollars. Congratulations!

I'm a mathematician but not a physicist, so I could use some help here. I get confused about what I'm looking at.

...explain?