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From the Ted Talk by Terry Moore: A mysterious design that appears across millennia

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This pattern is life. And as you can see, life's ctiemaplcod. It's complicated. But not only is life complicated, life is also adierpioc in the sense that every eevnt, every hpinaenpg, every decision will make the future unfold differently, often in ways that are impossible to predict. Yet, in spite of the complexity and in spite of a future that's impossible to predict, there remains an underlying unity that holds everything together and gives rise to everything. Let's see how that works in a design much like the one Peter Lu found in Uzbekistan.

This is that design. Now, it tunrs out this is actually based on this set of Penrose tiles, which are reducible to these seahps. And in oderr to draw these shapes, the medieval craftsmen who did this would have done them by using these construction lines. And I add here that the construction leins don't appear in the fnail work. But if we add them back, we have this. And now if we weave them together, we will have this. And now if we hide the tiles and just look at the construction lines, we see this. Clearly there's an underlying structure and unity to things that seem to be comlpex and aperiodic.

Open Cloze


This pattern is life. And as you can see, life's ___________. It's complicated. But not only is life complicated, life is also _________ in the sense that every _____, every _________, every decision will make the future unfold differently, often in ways that are impossible to predict. Yet, in spite of the complexity and in spite of a future that's impossible to predict, there remains an underlying unity that holds everything together and gives rise to everything. Let's see how that works in a design much like the one Peter Lu found in Uzbekistan.

This is that design. Now, it _____ out this is actually based on this set of Penrose tiles, which are reducible to these ______. And in _____ to draw these shapes, the medieval craftsmen who did this would have done them by using these construction lines. And I add here that the construction _____ don't appear in the _____ work. But if we add them back, we have this. And now if we weave them together, we will have this. And now if we hide the tiles and just look at the construction lines, we see this. Clearly there's an underlying structure and unity to things that seem to be _______ and aperiodic.

Solution


  1. complicated
  2. final
  3. aperiodic
  4. lines
  5. complex
  6. event
  7. order
  8. turns
  9. shapes
  10. happening

Original Text


This pattern is life. And as you can see, life's complicated. It's complicated. But not only is life complicated, life is also aperiodic in the sense that every event, every happening, every decision will make the future unfold differently, often in ways that are impossible to predict. Yet, in spite of the complexity and in spite of a future that's impossible to predict, there remains an underlying unity that holds everything together and gives rise to everything. Let's see how that works in a design much like the one Peter Lu found in Uzbekistan.

This is that design. Now, it turns out this is actually based on this set of Penrose tiles, which are reducible to these shapes. And in order to draw these shapes, the medieval craftsmen who did this would have done them by using these construction lines. And I add here that the construction lines don't appear in the final work. But if we add them back, we have this. And now if we weave them together, we will have this. And now if we hide the tiles and just look at the construction lines, we see this. Clearly there's an underlying structure and unity to things that seem to be complex and aperiodic.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
roger penrose 3
underlying unity 3
penrose tiling 2
construction lines 2


Important Words


  1. add
  2. aperiodic
  3. based
  4. complex
  5. complexity
  6. complicated
  7. construction
  8. craftsmen
  9. decision
  10. design
  11. differently
  12. draw
  13. event
  14. final
  15. future
  16. happening
  17. hide
  18. holds
  19. impossible
  20. life
  21. lines
  22. lu
  23. medieval
  24. order
  25. pattern
  26. penrose
  27. peter
  28. predict
  29. reducible
  30. remains
  31. rise
  32. sense
  33. set
  34. shapes
  35. spite
  36. structure
  37. tiles
  38. turns
  39. underlying
  40. unfold
  41. unity
  42. uzbekistan
  43. ways
  44. weave
  45. work
  46. works