Today I’m going to talk to Professor Jerry Smith about the monkey-puzzle tree.
It’s an evergreen tree native to the Andes, which might become extinct within a few decades. The unusual name derives from its early cultivation in Britain. It is believed that the owner of a young tree in Cornwall was showing it to a group of friends, and one said, “it would puzzle a monkey to climb that”. Because it is an evergreen, it is often used as an ornamental tree. Since the trees are more valuable alive, they are rarely cut for timber, but harvesting of the nuts has put survival of the trees at risk. The once thriving tree population is now beginning to diminish. Let’s see why. Professor Smith can you...

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Man: Let me tell you a story: Picasso was sitting in a café one day when someone asked him to draw something on a napkin. He did and asked for $25,000. Like you, the man said that it was outrageous because it only took him a minute, to which Picasso replied, “Actually, that took me 40 years.” 

Woman: So you think you’re Picasso? 

Man: No, but I did spend the last 15 years learning how to write that four-page document you’re holding in your hand. If you were able to do it, you would do it yourself. You came to me, not the other way round.