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From the Ted Talk by Nalini Nadkarni: Conserving the canopy

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And so, I think for many reasons — ecological, social, economic and perhaps even spiritual — this has been a tremendous project and I'm really looking forward to not only myself and my students doing it, but also to promote and teach other scientists how to do this. As many of you are aawre, the world of aaeicmda is a rather inward-looking one. I'm trying to help researchers move more outward to have their own partnerships with pelpoe outside of the academic community. And so I'm hoping that my husband Jack, the ant tsxmoaiont, can perhaps work with mttael to make Taxonomist Ken. Perhaps Ben Zander and Bill geats could get together and make an opera about AIDS. Or perhaps Al Gore and ntaallury 7 could make a song about climate change that would really make you clap your hands.

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And so, I think for many reasons — ecological, social, economic and perhaps even spiritual — this has been a tremendous project and I'm really looking forward to not only myself and my students doing it, but also to promote and teach other scientists how to do this. As many of you are _____, the world of ________ is a rather inward-looking one. I'm trying to help researchers move more outward to have their own partnerships with ______ outside of the academic community. And so I'm hoping that my husband Jack, the ant __________, can perhaps work with ______ to make Taxonomist Ken. Perhaps Ben Zander and Bill _____ could get together and make an opera about AIDS. Or perhaps Al Gore and _________ 7 could make a song about climate change that would really make you clap your hands.

Solution


  1. naturally
  2. gates
  3. people
  4. aware
  5. mattel
  6. academia
  7. taxonomist

Original Text


And so, I think for many reasons — ecological, social, economic and perhaps even spiritual — this has been a tremendous project and I'm really looking forward to not only myself and my students doing it, but also to promote and teach other scientists how to do this. As many of you are aware, the world of academia is a rather inward-looking one. I'm trying to help researchers move more outward to have their own partnerships with people outside of the academic community. And so I'm hoping that my husband Jack, the ant taxonomist, can perhaps work with Mattel to make Taxonomist Ken. Perhaps Ben Zander and Bill Gates could get together and make an opera about AIDS. Or perhaps Al Gore and Naturally 7 could make a song about climate change that would really make you clap your hands.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
forest floor 3
costa rica 3
climb trees 2
canopy researchers 2
washington state 2
canopy confluences 2


Important Words


  1. academia
  2. academic
  3. aids
  4. al
  5. ant
  6. aware
  7. ben
  8. bill
  9. change
  10. clap
  11. climate
  12. community
  13. ecological
  14. economic
  15. gates
  16. gore
  17. hands
  18. hoping
  19. husband
  20. jack
  21. ken
  22. mattel
  23. move
  24. naturally
  25. opera
  26. outward
  27. partnerships
  28. people
  29. project
  30. promote
  31. reasons
  32. researchers
  33. scientists
  34. social
  35. song
  36. spiritual
  37. students
  38. taxonomist
  39. teach
  40. tremendous
  41. work
  42. world
  43. zander