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From the Ted Talk by Catherine Mohr: How I became part sea urchin

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Now I was weight-bearing again, I could reschedule that surgery, get the spine out. But I didn't need it anymore. Turns out, when you break a bone, your body scavenges calcium from all the bones in your body — and from the little sea urchin spine that you happen to have lodged in the joint of your finger. So yes, my pelvis is now part sea uhricn.

(Laughter)

So to bogoliy brain, pycissiht brain, aidlnerane brian, warm-blooded-mammal brain, I get to add "urchin brain," with all of the superpowers that that confers. You don't need to worry, though: that I am not fully human is one of the things that my family loves the most about me.

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Now I was weight-bearing again, I could reschedule that surgery, get the spine out. But I didn't need it anymore. Turns out, when you break a bone, your body scavenges calcium from all the bones in your body — and from the little sea urchin spine that you happen to have lodged in the joint of your finger. So yes, my pelvis is now part sea ______.

(Laughter)

So to _______ brain, _________ brain, __________ _____, warm-blooded-mammal brain, I get to add "urchin brain," with all of the superpowers that that confers. You don't need to worry, though: that I am not fully human is one of the things that my family loves the most about me.

Solution


  1. biology
  2. physicist
  3. adrenaline
  4. urchin
  5. brain

Original Text


Now I was weight-bearing again, I could reschedule that surgery, get the spine out. But I didn't need it anymore. Turns out, when you break a bone, your body scavenges calcium from all the bones in your body — and from the little sea urchin spine that you happen to have lodged in the joint of your finger. So yes, my pelvis is now part sea urchin.

(Laughter)

So to biology brain, physicist brain, adrenaline brain, warm-blooded-mammal brain, I get to add "urchin brain," with all of the superpowers that that confers. You don't need to worry, though: that I am not fully human is one of the things that my family loves the most about me.

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Important Words


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  27. spine
  28. superpowers
  29. surgery
  30. turns
  31. urchin
  32. worry