From the Ted Talk by Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things
Unscramble the Blue Letters
This strange-looking plant is claeld the Llareta. What looks like moss covering rocks is actually a srhub comprised of thousands of branches, each containing clusters of tiny green leaves at the end and so densely pckaed together that you could actually stand on top of it. This individual lives in the aaamcta Desert in Chile, and it happens to be 3,000 years old. It also happens to be a relative of parsley.
For the past five years, I've been rhinsaerecg, working with biologists and tvrnileag all over the world to find continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. The project is part art and part sccinee. There's an environmental cpmnoeont. And I'm also trying to create a means in which to step outside our quotidian experience of time and to start to consider a deeper timescale. I selected 2,000 yares as my minimum age because I wanted to start at what we consider to be year zero and work backward from there.
Open Cloze
This strange-looking plant is ______ the Llareta. What looks like moss covering rocks is actually a _____ comprised of thousands of branches, each containing clusters of tiny green leaves at the end and so densely ______ together that you could actually stand on top of it. This individual lives in the _______ Desert in Chile, and it happens to be 3,000 years old. It also happens to be a relative of parsley.
For the past five years, I've been ___________, working with biologists and _________ all over the world to find continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. The project is part art and part _______. There's an environmental _________. And I'm also trying to create a means in which to step outside our quotidian experience of time and to start to consider a deeper timescale. I selected 2,000 _____ as my minimum age because I wanted to start at what we consider to be year zero and work backward from there.
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Original Text
This strange-looking plant is called the Llareta. What looks like moss covering rocks is actually a shrub comprised of thousands of branches, each containing clusters of tiny green leaves at the end and so densely packed together that you could actually stand on top of it. This individual lives in the Atacama Desert in Chile, and it happens to be 3,000 years old. It also happens to be a relative of parsley.
For the past five years, I've been researching, working with biologists and traveling all over the world to find continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. The project is part art and part science. There's an environmental component. And I'm also trying to create a means in which to step outside our quotidian experience of time and to start to consider a deeper timescale. I selected 2,000 years as my minimum age because I wanted to start at what we consider to be year zero and work backward from there.