SELF

The architect Christopher Alexander concludes that life is everywhere, in an interconnected way, by design. Nature, animals, plants, mountains, clouds, rivers, valleys, birds and insects just fit together in harmony. Nature’s design is integrated and flawless.

Pokémon was the brainchild of Satoshi Tijari, who was only 24 when he started working on the iconic game for Gameboy, taking six years before it finally went on sale in Japan.

The game tapped into the need to explore mountains, rivers and landscapes which had all but disappeared, with lar...

A fractal pattern is a basic pattern that repeats at different scales.

• Exact fractals repeat exactly at every scale, for example, the growth spiral of a plant.
• Statistical fractals repeat in similar but not identi...