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the silent agreement that lets your brain tell a cat from a chair
means The form or outline of something — the configuration of its surface that lets you recognize it at a glance.
from From Old English 'sceap' or 'gesceap,' meaning creation, form, or condition — itself tied to the verb 'scieppan,' to create or shape. It belongs to a Germanic family (a cousin of words behind German 'schaffen,' to create). The same root quietly survives in the suffix '-ship' — friendship, hardship — where it once meant the 'shape' or state of a thing.
- oldest math
- Geometry predates writing in some cultures
- bee genius
- Hexagons use least wax for most honey
- no straight lines
- Nature almost never makes a true straight edge
- shape memory
- Some metals snap back to original form when heated
- infinite sides
- A circle is just a polygon with endless edges
golden gate bridge — iconic suspension bridge with distinctive orange-red color, completed 1937 in san francisco
great pyramid of giza — largest egyptian pyramid with precise square base, built ~2560 bc
pantheon dome — roman concrete dome with oculus opening, completed 126 ad in rome