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  • September 11, 2021

    On Anabiosis and Mosses Helping with Sleep

    On Wednesday, on the way to the river, I stopped in my tracks, struck by the moss habitat on a birch tree on the bank. It is a twinned paper birch — with one dead trunk snapped off about two meters ...

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