Hannah, have you seen Avatar?
They'll finally understand what we've known for so long now, you and I (:
It's a nontrivial introduction to the new science of networks. (It's an umbrella term that emerged from graph theory, neural networks, physics, and especially social network science -- more of a structural framework that is near universal to complex systems like the weather, the stock market, the immune system, multiplyDOTcom, etc.)
Remember that tree I was telling you about? And that long-maned blue monkey with twin solar eclipses for eyes you doodled years back?
I'm supposed to be sad that I have to rethink and scrap some of my ideas to minimize the annoyance of reinvention but the film was sweetness and romance beyond my 3D rendering knowledge I simply had to surrender and fall in love 'ya know.
~PB