How to pronounce “sago” in English

Southeast Asia.A single sago palm tree will net literally millions of calories in starchy flour that you can make into a gruel that's very calorically dense.The catch is it takes 25 years for a sago palm to develop to maturity and to the point where it can be harvested, and trying to understand

A single sago palm tree will net literally millions of calories in starchy flour that you can make into a gruel that's very calorically dense.The catch is it takes 25 years for a sago palm to develop to maturity and to the point where it can be harvested, and trying to understandthe evolution of this remarkable horticultural system led us to think hard about economic topics, such as time and risk preferences and economic decisions generally.

The history of this for me goes back to my former PhD student Mike Price, who is now a post-doc at the Santa FeInstitute, and Mike was interested in understanding the origins of sago palm farming in Southeast Asia.Sago palm-- it's an amazing crop.

We have a bunch of it, and it's really cheap right now.But that accident was one of a rash of industrial accidents around fossil fuels that included the 2006 Sago Mine disaster, which killed 12 people, the collapse of the Kingston FossilPlant in Tennessee in 2008, which resulted in the largest release of coal ash in US history, and the Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion, which killed 29 miners in April of 2010.

the evolution of this remarkable horticultural system led us to think hard about economic topics, such as time and risk preferences and economic decisions generally.It's hard to make a standard economic model that says, OK, forego the immediate reward activities you're pursuing right now and go plant some sago palm,and wait 25 years.