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What is one thing you can’t live without?
Mitochondria.

yellow leaves
caught in Autumn light:
glowing ash in wind.
How do you define success in life?
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Successful is the squirrel that gets the nuts to keep it alive through Winter, without burying a ton of useless nuts. [Fun fact: Squirrels lose track of as many as half the nuts they bury (and seldom sit and enjoy a sunset.)]
What’s a completely useless fact you love sharing?
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The gas exchange surface area of the lungs of the average adult human (if one flattened out all those balloon-like alveoli) is about the area of a tennis court.
What’s a book or movie that genuinely scared you?
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The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert