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From the Ted Talk by Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


NM: That's a mosquito wing beat you're hearing.

EJ: Finally, let's see what this looks like. There you can see muostiqeos as they fly around, being lit up. This is slowed way down so that you have an opportunity to see what's happening. Here we have it running at high-speed mode. So this system that was bliut for TED is here to illustrate that it is technically possible to actually deploy a system like this, and we're looking very hard at how to make it highly cost-effective to use in plceas like Africa and other parts of the world.

(Applause)

NM: So it wouldn't be any fun to show you that without showing you what actually happens when we hit 'em. (Laughter) (lhguaetr) This is very ssyiitfnag. (Laughter) This is one of the first ones we did. The energy's a little bit high here. (Laughter) We'll loop around here in just a second, and you'll see another one. Here's another one. Bang. An interesting thing is, we kill them all the time; we've never actually gotten the wings to shut off in miiadr. The wing motor is very resilient. I mean, here we're blowing wgins off but the wing motor keeps all the way down.

Open Cloze


NM: That's a mosquito wing beat you're hearing.

EJ: Finally, let's see what this looks like. There you can see __________ as they fly around, being lit up. This is slowed way down so that you have an opportunity to see what's happening. Here we have it running at high-speed mode. So this system that was _____ for TED is here to illustrate that it is technically possible to actually deploy a system like this, and we're looking very hard at how to make it highly cost-effective to use in ______ like Africa and other parts of the world.

(Applause)

NM: So it wouldn't be any fun to show you that without showing you what actually happens when we hit 'em. (Laughter) (________) This is very __________. (Laughter) This is one of the first ones we did. The energy's a little bit high here. (Laughter) We'll loop around here in just a second, and you'll see another one. Here's another one. Bang. An interesting thing is, we kill them all the time; we've never actually gotten the wings to shut off in ______. The wing motor is very resilient. I mean, here we're blowing _____ off but the wing motor keeps all the way down.

Solution


  1. places
  2. midair
  3. satisfying
  4. laughter
  5. wings
  6. mosquitoes
  7. built

Original Text


NM: That's a mosquito wing beat you're hearing.

EJ: Finally, let's see what this looks like. There you can see mosquitoes as they fly around, being lit up. This is slowed way down so that you have an opportunity to see what's happening. Here we have it running at high-speed mode. So this system that was built for TED is here to illustrate that it is technically possible to actually deploy a system like this, and we're looking very hard at how to make it highly cost-effective to use in places like Africa and other parts of the world.

(Applause)

NM: So it wouldn't be any fun to show you that without showing you what actually happens when we hit 'em. (Laughter) (Laughter) This is very satisfying. (Laughter) This is one of the first ones we did. The energy's a little bit high here. (Laughter) We'll loop around here in just a second, and you'll see another one. Here's another one. Bang. An interesting thing is, we kill them all the time; we've never actually gotten the wings to shut off in midair. The wing motor is very resilient. I mean, here we're blowing wings off but the wing motor keeps all the way down.

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Important Words


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