- EvolutionHow 3.7 billion years of variation and selection produced every living thing, including the reader.
- Body and healthHealth, movement, sleep and the biology of energy: the physical ground every plan stands on.
- Food and nutritionWhat we eat, how it is grown, and what the evidence says a healthy diet looks like.
- Living systemsCells, genes, proteins and ecosystems: life as systems of feedback, from molecules to forests.
- RelationshipsFamily, friendship and community: the ties that make a life livable, and what research says about them.
World 3 of 7 · Living well
Life
Life is chemistry that keeps itself going. This world covers how living things came to be, how a human body works and stays well, what we eat and grow, and the ecosystems and relationships every life depends on.
- biology
- evolution
- health
- physiology
- nutrition
- ecosystems
- agriculture
- relationships
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- EvolutionHow 3.7 billion years of variation and selection produced every living thing, including the reader.
- Body and healthHealth, movement, sleep and the biology of energy: the physical ground every plan stands on.
- Food and nutritionWhat we eat, how it is grown, and what the evidence says a healthy diet looks like.
- Living systemsCells, genes, proteins and ecosystems: life as systems of feedback, from molecules to forests.
- RelationshipsFamily, friendship and community: the ties that make a life livable, and what research says about them.
Projects here
- GüneyLive
A mountain village in Yeşilova, Burdur, near Lake Salda: a community site today, and the ground for ideas about ecological, self-sufficient living.
- GoodEatPaused
A healthier-takeaway marketplace concept: choose local kitchens by what is in the food, not only by price.
- White DragonIdea
A 2001 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 316 CDI Rapido campervan, and the idea of a life built around movement, nature, music and making.
- FreedomnIdea
A concept for discovering free things to do nearby, collected like entries in a field guide.
How Life connects
- GoodEatProject · Life
A healthier-takeaway marketplace concept: choose local kitchens by what is in the food, not only by price.
Symbolic correspondences
Interpretation Older traditions mapped the cosmos through planets, metals, chakras and the Tree of Life. These pairings are this site’s own map; what each one means comes from its tradition, not from science.
Hermetic principle
Rhythm
“Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides.”
Breath, heartbeat, sleep, seasons: living things are made of cycles more than of states.
Planet · metal
Venus · Copper
Venus rules love, beauty and the pleasure of being alive. Its metal is copper, from Cyprus, the island of Aphrodite.
Chakra · centre of the chest
Heart Anahata
The twelve-petalled lotus of balance and love, the middle point between the lower and upper centres.
Tarot · Tree of Life
The Empress · Netzach
The Empress is fertility and abundance; Netzach, “Victory” or “Endurance”, is the sphere of feeling and nature.
Sacred geometry
Flower of life
A field of overlapping circles found in art across many cultures, read as an image of growth from a single seed.
Science 2017
The body’s clock (Nobel Prize)
Hall, Rosbash and Young won for finding the genes that keep the body’s 24-hour rhythm.