Mathematics is connected to everything -- Earth's climate and some basic principles -- Economic instability: ongoing causes -- What is mathematics? More basics -- We all soak in a synthetic chemical soup -- Mathematics : food, soil, water, air, free speech -- mathematics and energy -- The Brower-Cousteau model of the Earth -- Fuzzy logic, sharp logic, frames, and bigger pictures -- The Dunbar number -- Math and nature: the nature of math -- One pattern viewed via geometry and numbers: mathese -- Axioms and atoms -- Five more axioms for numbers -- What patterns can be deduced in our deductive system? -- One of the oldest mathematical patterns -- A short story and some numberless mathematics -- A set of social rules for the Warlpiri people -- counting -- Counting exactly -- Equivalence relations and counting -- Box models: population, money, recycling -- Some population numbers -- Basic mathematical patterns in population growth -- Box models: money, recycling, epidemics -- Chance : health, surveillance, spies, and voting -- Chance: health and news -- Surveillance, spies, snitches, loss of privacy, and life -- Identity theft, encryption, torture, planespotting -- Voting in the 21st century -- Economics -- What exactly is economics? -- Mathematical concepts and economics -- The concept of money -- Distributed vs. centralized control and decision making -- Energy and thermodynamics -- The financial mathematics of loans, debts, and compound interest -- Media literacy -- Information flow in the 21st century -- Media literacy: censorship and propaganda.