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People like lists. We can't help it, but we do. We love categorizing, cataloguing, filing facts away. A place for everything and everything in its place. School, well, at least my high school, embraces this notion. Classes are the files in which we place information. Take that red box. That's where math is. Don't forget that ab+ac=a(b+c) by the distributive property. The blue box, that's history. That contains the Battle of Saratoga (1777) and Napoleon Bonaparte. The green is science: Watson and Crick, Marie Curie, and Charles Darwin. But life doesn't work the same way. It doesn't separate itself into neat little compartments. Life is like the sphere, facts and information intertwining the disciplines, breaking down the boundaries between them.