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From the Ted Talk by Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized

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Even though I am a mathematician, I look at this with marvel of how do these instruction sets not make these mistakes as they build what is us? It's a mystery, it's magic, it's divinity. Then you satrt to take a look at adult life. Take a look at this little tuft of capillaries. It's just a tiny sub-substructure, microscopic. But basically by the time you're nine months and you're given brith, you have almost 60,000 miles of vessels inside your body. And only one mile is viiblse. 59,999 miles that are basically bingnirg nutrients and taking waste away. The complexity of building that within a single system is, again, beyond any comprehension or any existing mhmataetcis taody.

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Even though I am a mathematician, I look at this with marvel of how do these instruction sets not make these mistakes as they build what is us? It's a mystery, it's magic, it's divinity. Then you _____ to take a look at adult life. Take a look at this little tuft of capillaries. It's just a tiny sub-substructure, microscopic. But basically by the time you're nine months and you're given _____, you have almost 60,000 miles of vessels inside your body. And only one mile is _______. 59,999 miles that are basically ________ nutrients and taking waste away. The complexity of building that within a single system is, again, beyond any comprehension or any existing ___________ _____.

Solution


  1. visible
  2. today
  3. bringing
  4. birth
  5. mathematics
  6. start

Original Text


Even though I am a mathematician, I look at this with marvel of how do these instruction sets not make these mistakes as they build what is us? It's a mystery, it's magic, it's divinity. Then you start to take a look at adult life. Take a look at this little tuft of capillaries. It's just a tiny sub-substructure, microscopic. But basically by the time you're nine months and you're given birth, you have almost 60,000 miles of vessels inside your body. And only one mile is visible. 59,999 miles that are basically bringing nutrients and taking waste away. The complexity of building that within a single system is, again, beyond any comprehension or any existing mathematics today.

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Important Words


  1. adult
  2. basically
  3. birth
  4. body
  5. bringing
  6. build
  7. building
  8. capillaries
  9. complexity
  10. comprehension
  11. divinity
  12. existing
  13. instruction
  14. life
  15. magic
  16. marvel
  17. mathematician
  18. mathematics
  19. microscopic
  20. mile
  21. miles
  22. mistakes
  23. months
  24. mystery
  25. nutrients
  26. sets
  27. single
  28. start
  29. system
  30. time
  31. tiny
  32. today
  33. tuft
  34. vessels
  35. visible
  36. waste