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the universe's favorite trick: convincing you the end was actually a beginning
means A cycle is a sequence of events or stages that repeats in the same order, returning to where it started.
from From the Greek 'kyklos,' meaning circle, wheel, or ring — the same root that rolls through 'bicycle,' 'cyclone,' and 'encyclopedia' (literally a circle of learning). It reached English through Latin 'cyclus' and Old French, carrying its wheel-shaped logic intact: whatever goes around, the word insists, comes around.
- water's loop
- You drink molecules dinosaurs once peed out
- carbon engine
- Every breath trades atoms with ancient forests
- sleep rhythm
- Brain runs 90-minute cycles all night long
- economic
- Booms and busts repeat with eerie regularity
- menstrual moon
- Roughly tracks the lunar month, no coincidence claimed
for instance
tour de france — annual 3,500 km bicycle race through france since 1903
giro d'italia — annual 3,500+ km italian cycling grand tour since 1909
water cycle — evaporation, condensation, precipitation process on earth