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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Bird: A one-man orchestra of the imagination

Unscramble the Blue Letters


♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, fbedaeck loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a — (Feedback)

All right. I don't know if that was necessary to doraesnmtte — (lgatehur) — but my point is it's the sonud of self-destruction.

And I've been tninikhg about how that applies across a whole spectrum of realms, from, say, the ecological, okay. There seems to be a rule in nature that if you get too close to where you came from, it gets ugly. So like, you can't feed cows their own brains or you get mad cow disease, and irendniebg and inecst and, let's see, what's the other one? Biological — there's autoimmune diseases, where the body attacks itself a little too overzealously and destroys the host, or the person. And then — okay, this is where we get to the song — kind of bridges the gap to the entaimool.

Open Cloze


♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, ________ loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a — (Feedback)

All right. I don't know if that was necessary to ___________ — (________) — but my point is it's the _____ of self-destruction.

And I've been ________ about how that applies across a whole spectrum of realms, from, say, the ecological, okay. There seems to be a rule in nature that if you get too close to where you came from, it gets ugly. So like, you can't feed cows their own brains or you get mad cow disease, and __________ and ______ and, let's see, what's the other one? Biological — there's autoimmune diseases, where the body attacks itself a little too overzealously and destroys the host, or the person. And then — okay, this is where we get to the song — kind of bridges the gap to the _________.

Solution


  1. sound
  2. feedback
  3. incest
  4. emotional
  5. laughter
  6. demonstrate
  7. inbreeding
  8. thinking

Original Text


♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a loop, feedback loop ♫ ♫ This is a — (Feedback)

All right. I don't know if that was necessary to demonstrate — (Laughter) — but my point is it's the sound of self-destruction.

And I've been thinking about how that applies across a whole spectrum of realms, from, say, the ecological, okay. There seems to be a rule in nature that if you get too close to where you came from, it gets ugly. So like, you can't feed cows their own brains or you get mad cow disease, and inbreeding and incest and, let's see, what's the other one? Biological — there's autoimmune diseases, where the body attacks itself a little too overzealously and destroys the host, or the person. And then — okay, this is where we get to the song — kind of bridges the gap to the emotional.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
feedback loop 6
weather systems 4


Important Words


  1. applies
  2. attacks
  3. autoimmune
  4. biological
  5. body
  6. brains
  7. bridges
  8. close
  9. cow
  10. cows
  11. demonstrate
  12. destroys
  13. disease
  14. diseases
  15. ecological
  16. emotional
  17. feed
  18. feedback
  19. gap
  20. host
  21. inbreeding
  22. incest
  23. kind
  24. laughter
  25. loop
  26. mad
  27. nature
  28. overzealously
  29. person
  30. point
  31. realms
  32. rule
  33. song
  34. sound
  35. spectrum
  36. thinking
  37. ugly