how nature works
Bak, Per![how nature works](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/671/6713697/CHSBZCOP036713697.jpg)
Self-organized criticality, the spontaneous development of systems to a critical state, is the first general theory of complex systems with a firm mathematical basis. This theory describes how many seemingly desperate aspects of the world, from stock market crashes to mass extinctions, avalanches to solar flares, all share a set of simple, easily described properties.
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