Ecologist Rafe Sagarin received a Guggenheim Fellowship in order to work on the book LEARNING FROM THE OCTOPUS: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease. Sagarin explains how natural organisms have learned to thrive in an unpredictable and risk-filled planet without having the power to plan, predict, or try to perfect themselves. He then shows adopting just a few principles of natural adaptability has helped Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians work together to improve the health of all their people regardless of what side of the borders they live on, helped a giant company like 3M save hundreds of millions of dollars while vastly reducing its environmental impact, and helped soldiers and marines in Iraq finally overcome the threat of improvised explosive devices.
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