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From the Ted Talk by Nathan Myhrvold: Archaeology, animal photography, BBQ ...

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(lagtuher)

This is a high-speed cgueinrfte. You should all have one in your kcihten, beside your Turbochef. This subjects food to a force about 50,000 teims that of normal gravity, and oh boy, does it clarify chicken stock. You would not believe it! I perform a series of ghoulish experiments on food -- in this case, trying to clbatraie a mathematical model so that one can predict exactly what the internal cooking times are. It turns out, A, it's useful, and for a geek like me, it's fun. Theory is red, black is eimxerpnet. So, I'm either really good at faking it, or this particular model seems to work.

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This is a high-speed __________. You should all have one in your _______, beside your Turbochef. This subjects food to a force about 50,000 _____ that of normal gravity, and oh boy, does it clarify chicken stock. You would not believe it! I perform a series of ghoulish experiments on food -- in this case, trying to _________ a mathematical model so that one can predict exactly what the internal cooking times are. It turns out, A, it's useful, and for a geek like me, it's fun. Theory is red, black is __________. So, I'm either really good at faking it, or this particular model seems to work.

Solution


  1. kitchen
  2. calibrate
  3. times
  4. laughter
  5. centrifuge
  6. experiment

Original Text


(Laughter)

This is a high-speed centrifuge. You should all have one in your kitchen, beside your Turbochef. This subjects food to a force about 50,000 times that of normal gravity, and oh boy, does it clarify chicken stock. You would not believe it! I perform a series of ghoulish experiments on food -- in this case, trying to calibrate a mathematical model so that one can predict exactly what the internal cooking times are. It turns out, A, it's useful, and for a geek like me, it's fun. Theory is red, black is experiment. So, I'm either really good at faking it, or this particular model seems to work.

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