How is wood made into paper?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Paper is made out of trees! But… how? Those tall, leafy, shade-giving beauties in your backyard don’t look anything like the piece of white paper coming out of your computer printer. We asked forest expert and educator Sanford Smith to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is sponsored by Green Light. Did you know that 27 states don't require a personal |
| 0:06.4 | finance course for students even though teens score an average of 64% on the National |
| 0:12.2 | Financial Literacy Test? Let's make a difference. 64% on the national financial literacy test? |
| 0:14.0 | Let's make a difference. |
| 0:16.0 | Our friends at Million, Basilian, and Green Light are hitting the road visiting schools |
| 0:20.2 | to teach important lessons on financial literacy. |
| 0:23.0 | It's all the fun of the podcast, but now live and interactive. |
| 0:27.0 | Million Bazillion Live is in partnership with Green Light, the Money App for Kids and Teens. |
| 0:32.0 | Learn more about Green Light at greenlight.com slash million. |
| 0:36.0 | That's greenlight dot com slash million. |
| 0:39.0 | From the brains behind brains on, |
| 0:42.0 | this is the moment of um. |
| 0:44.4 | Answering those questions that make you go |
| 0:49.3 | um. Um. Um Moment of Um, um, um, |
| 1:05.0 | comes to you from APM Studios. |
| 1:08.0 | And I'm a piece of paper. |
| 1:10.0 | And today is my big day. |
| 1:12.0 | Um. And today is my big day. I'm 8.5 by 11 inches, white, smooth, flat as can be. |
| 1:20.0 | And I've been sitting in a giant stack with my friends waiting for my turn to go through the printer. |
| 1:27.2 | Getting inked is my defining moment. What will I become? Will I be |
| 1:36.0 | a flyer for a punk band called The Screaming Meanies? A book report on the Asian elephant? |
| 1:40.0 | Will I be a scene in a movie script about a baseball game gone horribly right? |
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