Happy Diwali and Prosperous New Year (Samvat 2076)
This book was gifted to me by one of the blog follower and have to say it’s must read. Scale is written by Geoffrey West, who is theoretical physicist and but this book seems to show his area of interest is much more than that, he tries to connect physics – biology to humans to company to cities to country and economy up-to some extend. Below are my notes of the same.
Average number of heartbeats in the lifetime of any mammal is roughly same (around 1bn, hence focus on Yoga/ breathing exercise), even though small ones like mice live for just few years whereas big ones like whale can live for a hundred years or more. Many such coincidence or rules of nature exist that are outlined.
Urbanization big theme, Burundi poorest country has 10% urbanization, USA had 4% 200yrs back, now at 80%. This is largest migration humans have and are witnessing.
For 2000 years everyone believed if from a particular height two objects of different weights was dropped, heavy object would fall faster and touch ground before lighter one – until Galileo actually proved it wrong by throwing stuff from leaning tower of Pisa – People can remain stupid for long time.
Svate August Arrhenius first Swedish person to win noble, calculated how change in level of CO2 could alter surface temperature of Earth thru greenhouse effect, predicting that burning fossil fuel was/will cause global warming. He did all this before 1900. (Humans can be way more stupid that one can expect it predict).
How to extend life – decrease food intake by 10% and you increase your lifespan by 10% – scientist proved this. (Given number of food delivery & hotel discount app, along with FB & Instagram – this can be very challenging task.
Four companies produce most cattle, beef, sheep, pig, chicken, egg, etc.
Our energy consumption has gone up like hockey stick and nuclear power is better & safe.
Average commuting time is 1hr on average from home to office across the world.
And much more…I suggest you read it.