The Spinning Top
I remember sitting on the floor of my grandparents apartment as a small child and playing with a spinning top. It was mesmerizing. How could something that would otherwise fall right over, balance itself just by spinning? In physics class years later, learning the answer to this question only bred more questions: Why can't intricate systems keep their balance, when a simple system like a gyroscope can do it so easily? Then in biology, I found out that they can indeed. In nature, balance is the name of the game: Predators automatically balance out their pray. Parasites drive growth of the very immune systems they try to elude. Animals feeding on plants, to said plants return their nutrition. Well, what about people?