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From the Ted Talk by Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?

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I'm working with architect Neil Spiller at the bettlrat School of Architecture, and we're collaborating with international scientists in order to generate these new materials from a bottom up approach. That manes we're generating them from stcarch. One of our collaborators is cihesmt Martin Hanczyc, and he's really interested in the transition from inert to living matter. Now, that's exactly the kind of process that I'm interested in, when we're thinking about sustainable materials.

So, Martin, he works with a system called the protocell. Now all this is — and it's magic — is a little fatty bag. And it's got a chemical btaerty in it. And it has no DNA. This little bag is able to conduct itself in a way that can only be described as lniivg. It is able to move around its environment. It can floolw chemical gradients. It can undergo complex reactions, some of which are happily architectural. So here we are. These are plorocelts, patterning their environment. We don't know how they do that yet. Here, this is a protocell, and it's volrousigy shedding this skin. Now, this looks like a chemical kind of birth. This is a violent prcoses.

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I'm working with architect Neil Spiller at the ________ School of Architecture, and we're collaborating with international scientists in order to generate these new materials from a bottom up approach. That _____ we're generating them from _______. One of our collaborators is _______ Martin Hanczyc, and he's really interested in the transition from inert to living matter. Now, that's exactly the kind of process that I'm interested in, when we're thinking about sustainable materials.

So, Martin, he works with a system called the protocell. Now all this is — and it's magic — is a little fatty bag. And it's got a chemical _______ in it. And it has no DNA. This little bag is able to conduct itself in a way that can only be described as ______. It is able to move around its environment. It can ______ chemical gradients. It can undergo complex reactions, some of which are happily architectural. So here we are. These are __________, patterning their environment. We don't know how they do that yet. Here, this is a protocell, and it's __________ shedding this skin. Now, this looks like a chemical kind of birth. This is a violent _______.

Solution


  1. battery
  2. follow
  3. vigorously
  4. chemist
  5. process
  6. living
  7. means
  8. protocells
  9. bartlett
  10. scratch

Original Text


I'm working with architect Neil Spiller at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and we're collaborating with international scientists in order to generate these new materials from a bottom up approach. That means we're generating them from scratch. One of our collaborators is chemist Martin Hanczyc, and he's really interested in the transition from inert to living matter. Now, that's exactly the kind of process that I'm interested in, when we're thinking about sustainable materials.

So, Martin, he works with a system called the protocell. Now all this is — and it's magic — is a little fatty bag. And it's got a chemical battery in it. And it has no DNA. This little bag is able to conduct itself in a way that can only be described as living. It is able to move around its environment. It can follow chemical gradients. It can undergo complex reactions, some of which are happily architectural. So here we are. These are protocells, patterning their environment. We don't know how they do that yet. Here, this is a protocell, and it's vigorously shedding this skin. Now, this looks like a chemical kind of birth. This is a violent process.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
metabolic materials 3
carbon dioxide 3
extract carbon 2
wooden piles 2
limestone reef 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
extract carbon dioxide 2

Important Words


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  32. martin
  33. materials
  34. matter
  35. means
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  37. neil
  38. order
  39. patterning
  40. process
  41. protocell
  42. protocells
  43. reactions
  44. school
  45. scientists
  46. scratch
  47. shedding
  48. skin
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  50. sustainable
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