Professional woodwhisperer, some sort of academic, Bright Club Edinburgh
🔎 Trees timber wood forestry science engineering research, public engagement, scicom.
[2] That was playing hard-mode rules, with an optimal statistical play that maintains a list of remaining possible words & plays the word most likely to get letter hits. Even with this strategy it loses quite often.
The previous talk "From forest to last" (#EvolvingTheForest) was a more general look at the future role of #wood the #bioeconomy & #CircularEconomy - which covered, among other things, the huge potential, but also the gap between renewable & unlimited [2]
...the gist of the start is similar to this...let's not get too hung up on words
I’m Dan Ridley-Ellis from the Centre for Wood Science & Technology. We research the properties of wood, what properties are needed for the different things we can make from wood, & how those properties are influenced by the way trees grow. (2/15)
We need to grade timber because it is variable - indeed there is a lot of variation within a single tree. This is not unique to timber though. We never have perfect knowledge of any engineering materials - even the man-made ones. 
More universal freeview #3D images.
"Curly hair" [2/8] 
Trees contain a lot of potentially useful extractives - chemicals with useful functions that might be taken out before the fibre goes to another market. Some listed in our database thanks to @IBioIC
What we are doing with wood is changing 