Chicago offers visitors and residents some world class museums. Recently, I got the chance to savor some of the new, interactive exhibits these museums have on display.
Shedd Aquarium's Jellies exhibit has the slogan, 95% water, 100% amazing. One interesting fact that I learned while visiting this exhibit was how jellyfish are such resilent creatures. Jellyfish survive in areas where other fish are dying off because of pollution. As a result jellyfish are growing exponentially as pollution creates deadzones in the world's oceans. Jellyfish by the Numbers includes statistics about how Jellyfish are affecting our world's ocean water.
Exponential growth is illustrated on the King's chessboard story where every square is double the one before it. When a species grows in this way it quickly becomes overwhelming to its ecosystem.
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