One of my favorite recent sub-features at McSweeney's is Lawrence Weschler's Convergences Contest. I am stunned yet again with today's artful entry (#28), sent to L.W. by Walter Murch:
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"Seeing the Tree for the Forest"
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Posted on: November 13, 2006 11:40 AM, by Benjamin Cohen
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Wow! That's way cool... A beautiful example of a fractal emerging from (human) nature. Thanks for pointing it out.
Posted by: Karmen | November 13, 2006 12:35 PM