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September 19, 2023

Clara Parkes
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Good morning!

It’s Tuesday, and I have a fascinating factoid to share with you. See this piece of seaweed? It’s five years old.

How do I know this? Did I ask it? No, because I happen to know that seaweed doesn’t like talking to humans. Does it carry a tiny birth certificate in its back pocket? No. Seaweed hates pockets.

The secret is in the floats, those bubble-like air bladders that keep the seaweed aloft in the water.

As the seaweed grows, it adds floats at the rate of, drumroll please, one per year. So if you count the floats along the length of the seaweed, being sure to ask permission first, you know how old it is.

“Try to learn something about everything, and everything about something.”

—Thomas Huxley

Isn’t Respite University fun?

I’ll see you tomorrow,

Clara

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Mary Thompson
Sep 19

I never knew that about seaweed. Thank you Clara, so much more than interesting than some of the repeating tape loop conversations I hear at work(and great that you are so polite when interacting with the seaweed).💖😌

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Penny
Sep 19

So funny, learning something new all the time!Thanks

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