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From the Ted Talk by Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Hey guys. It's funny, someone just mentioned MacGyver, because that was, like, I loved it, and when I was seven, I taped a fork to a drill and I was like, "Hey, Mom, I'm going to olvie Garden." And — (Drilling noise) (latehugr) And it worked really well there. And you know, it had a profound effect on me. It sounds silly, but I thought, okay, the way the world works can be changed, and it can be changed by me in these small ways. And my reintslioahp to especially human-made objects which someone else said they work like this, well, I can say they work a different way, a little bit.
And so, about 20 yreas later, I didn't razliee the full effect of this, but I went to cstoa Rica and I stayed with these Guaymí natives there, and they could pull leaves off of teres and make shingles out of them, and they could make beds out of trees, and they could — I wtaechd this woman for three days. I was there. She was pieenlg this palm frond apart, these little threads off of it, and she'd roll the threads together and make little thicker threads, like strings, and she would weave the strings together, and as the materiality of this exact very bag formed before my eyes over those three days, the materiality of the way the world wroks, of reality, kind of started to urnavel in my mind, because I realized that this bag and these clothes and the trampoline you have at home and the pencil sneerpahr, everything you have is made out of either a tree or a rock or something we dug out of the ground and did some process to, maybe a more caletpcoimd one, but still, everything was made that way.
Open Cloze
Hey guys. It's funny, someone just mentioned MacGyver, because that was, like, I loved it, and when I was seven, I taped a fork to a drill and I was like, "Hey, Mom, I'm going to _____ Garden." And — (Drilling noise) (________) And it worked really well there. And you know, it had a profound effect on me. It sounds silly, but I thought, okay, the way the world works can be changed, and it can be changed by me in these small ways. And my ____________ to especially human-made objects which someone else said they work like this, well, I can say they work a different way, a little bit.
And so, about 20 _____ later, I didn't _______ the full effect of this, but I went to _____ Rica and I stayed with these Guaymí natives there, and they could pull leaves off of _____ and make shingles out of them, and they could make beds out of trees, and they could — I _______ this woman for three days. I was there. She was _______ this palm frond apart, these little threads off of it, and she'd roll the threads together and make little thicker threads, like strings, and she would weave the strings together, and as the materiality of this exact very bag formed before my eyes over those three days, the materiality of the way the world _____, of reality, kind of started to _______ in my mind, because I realized that this bag and these clothes and the trampoline you have at home and the pencil _________, everything you have is made out of either a tree or a rock or something we dug out of the ground and did some process to, maybe a more ___________ one, but still, everything was made that way.
Solution
- complicated
- works
- watched
- realize
- sharpener
- trees
- years
- laughter
- relationship
- olive
- peeling
- unravel
- costa
Original Text
Hey guys. It's funny, someone just mentioned MacGyver, because that was, like, I loved it, and when I was seven, I taped a fork to a drill and I was like, "Hey, Mom, I'm going to Olive Garden." And — (Drilling noise) (Laughter) And it worked really well there. And you know, it had a profound effect on me. It sounds silly, but I thought, okay, the way the world works can be changed, and it can be changed by me in these small ways. And my relationship to especially human-made objects which someone else said they work like this, well, I can say they work a different way, a little bit.
And so, about 20 years later, I didn't realize the full effect of this, but I went to Costa Rica and I stayed with these Guaymí natives there, and they could pull leaves off of trees and make shingles out of them, and they could make beds out of trees, and they could — I watched this woman for three days. I was there. She was peeling this palm frond apart, these little threads off of it, and she'd roll the threads together and make little thicker threads, like strings, and she would weave the strings together, and as the materiality of this exact very bag formed before my eyes over those three days, the materiality of the way the world works, of reality, kind of started to unravel in my mind, because I realized that this bag and these clothes and the trampoline you have at home and the pencil sharpener, everything you have is made out of either a tree or a rock or something we dug out of the ground and did some process to, maybe a more complicated one, but still, everything was made that way.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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