Why You Cannot Just Count Tree Rings

A ring is a year, until the year the tree skipped one.

Thingmere takes one ordinary thing and follows it until it stops being ordinary.

Chapters
00:00 A Contradiction in a Cylinder
00:40 How a Ring Forms
02:46 Why You Cannot Just Count
04:15 What a Ring Actually Responds To
06:04 Not Every Change Is Climate
07:38 What Disturbance Leaves Behind
09:36 Beyond Width, and What the Atmosphere Leaves Behind
11:39 Wood Outlives the Tree
12:53 What Rings Forget, and Memory Without a Mind
14:08 Uncertainty Is Part of the Record
15:37 The Answer — Growth, Not Memory
16:43 Final Reframe — The Year Becomes Wood

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