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From the Ted Talk by Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action

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This is a little critter that's in the Namibian desert. It has no fersh water that it's able to drink, but it drinks water out of fog. It's got bumps on the back of its wing cevors. And those bumps act like a magnet for water. They have water-loving tips, and waxy sides. And the fog comes in and it builds up on the tips. And it goes down the sides and goes into the critter's mouth. There is actually a scientist here at orfoxd who studied this, Andrew Parker. And now kinetic and aecruhtriactl firms like Grimshaw are stntirag to look at this as a way of coating bindgiuls so that they gather water from the fog. 10 times better than our fog-catching nets.

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This is a little critter that's in the Namibian desert. It has no _____ water that it's able to drink, but it drinks water out of fog. It's got bumps on the back of its wing ______. And those bumps act like a magnet for water. They have water-loving tips, and waxy sides. And the fog comes in and it builds up on the tips. And it goes down the sides and goes into the critter's mouth. There is actually a scientist here at ______ who studied this, Andrew Parker. And now kinetic and _____________ firms like Grimshaw are ________ to look at this as a way of coating _________ so that they gather water from the fog. 10 times better than our fog-catching nets.

Solution


  1. buildings
  2. covers
  3. architectural
  4. starting
  5. fresh
  6. oxford

Original Text


This is a little critter that's in the Namibian desert. It has no fresh water that it's able to drink, but it drinks water out of fog. It's got bumps on the back of its wing covers. And those bumps act like a magnet for water. They have water-loving tips, and waxy sides. And the fog comes in and it builds up on the tips. And it goes down the sides and goes into the critter's mouth. There is actually a scientist here at Oxford who studied this, Andrew Parker. And now kinetic and architectural firms like Grimshaw are starting to look at this as a way of coating buildings so that they gather water from the fog. 10 times better than our fog-catching nets.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. act
  2. andrew
  3. architectural
  4. buildings
  5. builds
  6. bumps
  7. coating
  8. covers
  9. critter
  10. desert
  11. drink
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  13. firms
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  15. fresh
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  17. grimshaw
  18. kinetic
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  21. namibian
  22. nets
  23. oxford
  24. parker
  25. scientist
  26. sides
  27. starting
  28. studied
  29. times
  30. tips
  31. water
  32. waxy
  33. wing