Feedback loops: Regulating natural processes
When it gets really cold, what happens to your body? First you start shivering. Then, if you don’t take the hint and get warm, some of your body parts become numb. Keep this up, and soon, it’ll become...
View ArticleWhat is Homeostasis? It’s why you tilt bikes, it’s why populations never grow...
This is the second post in the “feedback loops” series. In the first blog of this series, I started the post by talking about how our body responds to cold and hot conditions. When it gets too cold, we...
View ArticleMonitoring in EIA
Is it enough to suggest mitigation measures and let things be? Of course not! That will be like asking a kid not to touch the remote and then leaving the kid in the house to go shopping! The final step...
View ArticlePositive feedback loops: Creating more of what’s already there!
(This is the third post in the “feedback loops” series) Ever used a bad eraser in your life? One that has been used so much that it’s become completely black? What happens when you erase something...
View ArticleDisturbance: Driving changes in the universe
(This is the fourth post in the “feedback loops” series) Imagine a world where nothing interacted with anything. Each entity, molecule and atom remained in isolation. They could not feel or touch each...
View ArticlePositive feedback loops: Controlling global climate
(This is the fifth post in the “feedback loops” series.) Climate is weather, over a long period of time. Unlike weather, climate is predictable. It has a number of factors like solar insolation,...
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