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From the Ted Talk by Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world

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And so, sometime ago, I got this idea for a camera system. It's not exactly rkceot science. We call this thing Eye-in-the-Sea. And scientists have done this on land for years; we just use a color that the animals can't see and then a camera that can see that coolr. You can't use infrared in the sea. We use far-red light, but even that's a problem because it gets absorbed so qkiulcy. Made an intinseefid camera, wanted to make this electronic jellyfish. Thing is, in science, you baillscay have to tell the funding agencies what you're going to discover before they'll give you the mneoy. And I didn't know what I was going to discover, so I couldn't get the funding for this. So I kluged this together, I got the Harvey Mudd eienniregng Clinic to actually do it as an undergraduate student project initially, and then I kluged funding from a whole bunch of different sources.

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And so, sometime ago, I got this idea for a camera system. It's not exactly ______ science. We call this thing Eye-in-the-Sea. And scientists have done this on land for years; we just use a color that the animals can't see and then a camera that can see that _____. You can't use infrared in the sea. We use far-red light, but even that's a problem because it gets absorbed so _______. Made an ___________ camera, wanted to make this electronic jellyfish. Thing is, in science, you _________ have to tell the funding agencies what you're going to discover before they'll give you the _____. And I didn't know what I was going to discover, so I couldn't get the funding for this. So I kluged this together, I got the Harvey Mudd ___________ Clinic to actually do it as an undergraduate student project initially, and then I kluged funding from a whole bunch of different sources.

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  1. basically
  2. engineering
  3. intensified
  4. quickly
  5. rocket
  6. money
  7. color

Original Text


And so, sometime ago, I got this idea for a camera system. It's not exactly rocket science. We call this thing Eye-in-the-Sea. And scientists have done this on land for years; we just use a color that the animals can't see and then a camera that can see that color. You can't use infrared in the sea. We use far-red light, but even that's a problem because it gets absorbed so quickly. Made an intensified camera, wanted to make this electronic jellyfish. Thing is, in science, you basically have to tell the funding agencies what you're going to discover before they'll give you the money. And I didn't know what I was going to discover, so I couldn't get the funding for this. So I kluged this together, I got the Harvey Mudd Engineering Clinic to actually do it as an undergraduate student project initially, and then I kluged funding from a whole bunch of different sources.

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