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the gorgeous excuse a thing gives for refusing to be explained quickly
means the quality of being elaborately detailed or complex, with many small interrelated parts that resist easy untangling
from From Latin intricare, 'to entangle,' built from in- ('in') plus tricae, meaning 'trifles, perplexities, hindrances' — the little snags that trip you up. The plural tricae literally referred to entanglements, possibly the kind that knot up around the feet (a cousin of extricate, 'to free from snags'). English borrowed the tangle in the 1500s and softened it from a frustration into a fascination.
- latin root
- from intricare, meaning to entangle or perplex
- snowflake math
- each forms from roughly a quintillion water molecules
- clockmaker's curse
- a single watch can hold over 1,000 parts
- brain wiring
- neurons outnumber stars in the Milky Way
antikythera mechanism — ancient greek astronomical calculator with 30+ interlocking bronze gears, built around 100 bce
notre-dame rose window — 13th-century stained glass window in paris with 84 intricate geometric petal sections
mughal jali screens — perforated marble lattice work at taj mahal with thousands of individual carved geometric pieces