Thank you! My Labour Day evening is going to consist of watching Legion with junior Canuck (him for the horror, me for Paul Bettany's abs), so it was nice to have this diversion first. And "Immortal Jellyfish"? Definitely needs to be the name of a band.
this talk was just a laundry list of old things. she didn't really tell us anything about them except how old they are, their names and where they live. boring. and she said that this was a cross of art, science and philosophy. more of all three, please.
I liked that, but I also wished she would have drilled down more on each species a little. Other than the trees, it was hard to tell if some of those were single living organisms, or just ancient colonies of organisms (fungus, coral) that have continued to thrive in the same location—which from a distance, could also be said about human colonies.
Still, pretty damn cool.