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Image Credits

Organization of Nature diagram: Found on the floor of the Biology Lecture Hall, Georgia Southern University, mid-1980s.

Organization chart: Wikimedia commons: URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tabulating_Machine_Co_Organization_Chart.jpg

The Cat: From Selfridge via Neisser U (1967) Cognitive Psychology New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Blueprint: Pixabay.com

Dalmatian with its nose to the ground: R. C. James

Fly-ball governor: Google images

TOTE unit: Sergejpinka, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2860903

Positive Feedback loop: By author.

Fox and rabbits diagram: Wiki.scipy.org https://scipy-cookbook.readthedocs.io/_images/rabbits_and_foxes_1v2.png

Noise cancellation: By author

S-curve of growth: By author

Exponential growth in information technologies: from Slideshare.com collection by Ray Kurzweil

Photovoltaic production: CleanTechnica.com

Exponential curve made up of little S curves: by author

Necker Cube : By author

Finch father with babies: By author

NY Times 1919 headline about Einstein: Wikimedia Commons: All Askew reproduction

Triangulation diagram: By author

Basilisk lizard image: Google Images, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1R4Lxoj5c

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