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Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 6 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. Got a question printed on the inside of your brain? Send it to us at Brainson.org/contact, and we’ll help you uncrumple the answer! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:07.4	Answering those questions that make you go um.
0:11.0	Um.
0:12.0	Um.
0:13.0	Uh.
0:14.0	Um.
0:15.0	Um.
0:16.0	Um.
0:17.0	Um.
0:18.0	Um.
0:19.0	Um.
0:20.0	Um. Um. Um. Um. Moment of Um, um, comes to you from APM Studios.
0:28.9	And I'm a piece of paper.
0:30.7	And today is my big day.
0:33.8	Um.
0:36.0	I'm 8.5 by 11 inches, white, smooth, flat as can be.
0:41.8	And I've been sitting in a giant stack with my friends waiting for my turn to go through the printer.
0:48.1	Getting inked is my defining moment.
0:51.0	What will I become?
0:52.5	Will I be a flyer for a punk band called the screaming
0:56.0	meanies? A book report on the Asian elephant? Will I be a scene in a movie script about a baseball
1:04.8	game gone horribly right? E! This is it! Here I go!
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