Algae

Unless you finish laundry naked, you can never be completely done with it.

Oxygen is algae fart.

People probably don't leave grass clippings in the road as often as it seems.

It just looks that way until they're done mowing.

Coral is an animal.

It shares its body with tiny algae that lives inside the tissues, kind of like roommates, if you think about it.

Those roommates make food from sunlight and they hand most of that food over to the coral so they can build the skeleton.

And that's where the corals get most of their energy and it's where their colors come from a lot of the time.

So when the water gets too hot for too long, that relationship breaks down and the coral just kicks the algae out of the coral skeleton.

Without them, you see straight through the tissue and you see the white skeleton behind it.

That white skeleton is always there, but the tissue hides the white skeleton because it's got the color and it's like the fleshy.

It's not dead, but it's starving.

It does energize water.

I've seen that, uh, uh, Algae growth out of the wastegate valve, which is past the vortex.

I've seen extreme algae growth where there was none of the main water flow.

The only thing that was different between the two water sources was one had gone through the vortex.

If they need to move house, they retract the entire crown of tentacles.

The swaying forests of Algi are just one of the natural highlights that the extensive Skerry Gardens have to offer.

Close to Fredrikstad is the estuary of a special river as it spills into the Skagerrak, the Glommer, one of the longest salmon rivers in Norway.

The salmon are still waiting in the estuary.

Gyro trotted up, nervous energy in every motion.

Algae's massing east of the drainage pipes.

Never seen patterns like that.

Clusters.

Neither one grows back, and neither one can be fixed with chemistry once it's happened.

Algae runs on its own timeline.

Most algae blooms in a closed pool start in the fall, in pools that were closed while the water was still warm.

The bloom starts, the water gets cold, and the green stays, so a pool that gets closed too warm can sit green all winter.

What was the fee?

Algae, about two hundred grams.

Lipid rich, twenty-seven to forty-five percent.

I checked it myself.

I speak about fungus and protists.

For people who don't know what protists are, these are basically the eukaryotic single-celled organisms such as Algae and like the malaria parasite, things like this, paramecium, flagellates.

I understand some of your students are listening.

So why don't you give them an answer to one of the questions for the test? Because, you know, they got up early on a Saturday.

So I spent 16 years teaching myself all of the science.

I just wrote a book, actually, with all my science in it called Love Your Health to Bits with Algae.

It comes out in January.

There's 330 pages, 650 scientific references, and it's fun to read.

And drugs can't do it.

And by the way, the reason there's that inner membrane in the mitochondria is it's left over from when it was a single-cell organism.

Algae, cyanobacteria, was the first life on Earth almost four billion years ago.

And it became your mitochondria.