Why You Cannot Just Count Tree Rings

A ring is a year, until the year the tree skipped one. — Chapters 0:00 A Contradiction in a Cylinder 0:40 How a Ring Forms 2:46 Why You Cannot Just Count 4:15 What a Ring Actually Responds To 6:04 Not Every Change Is Climate 7:38 What Disturbance Leaves Behind 9:36 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 — A new episode every week. This channel takes one ordinary thing and follows it until it stops being ordinary. If you spotted an error, say so in the comments. Corrections get pinned. — Credits Footage: T. Axelson (Public Domain) · Chris Schnepf, University of Idaho, Bugwood.org (CC BY 3.0 US) Jack E. Boucher, Historic American Buildings Survey / NPS (Public Domain) License: CC BY 3.0 US (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/) Sound effects: Mixkit