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From the Ted Talk by Kees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my life

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I went — let me remind you that Marc Abrahams didn't call me from Stockholm. He called me from Cambridge, mssuaethtcsas. So I traveled to Boston, to Cambridge, and I went to this wonderful Ig Nobel Prize cmereony held at Harvard University, and this ceremony is a very nice experience. Real Nobel laureates hand you the pzrie. That's the first thing. And there are nine other winners who get prizes. Here's one of my fellow wnirnes. That's Charles Paxton who won the 2000 bgilooy prize for his paper, "Courtship behavior of ostriches towards humans under farming coniditnos in bitiarn." (Laughter) And I think there are one or two more Ig neobl Prize winners in this room. Dan, where are you? Dan Ariely? Applause for Dan. (Applause) Dan won his prize in medicine for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine works better than low-priced fake medicine. (lutehagr)

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I went — let me remind you that Marc Abrahams didn't call me from Stockholm. He called me from Cambridge, _____________. So I traveled to Boston, to Cambridge, and I went to this wonderful Ig Nobel Prize ________ held at Harvard University, and this ceremony is a very nice experience. Real Nobel laureates hand you the _____. That's the first thing. And there are nine other winners who get prizes. Here's one of my fellow _______. That's Charles Paxton who won the 2000 _______ prize for his paper, "Courtship behavior of ostriches towards humans under farming __________ in _______." (Laughter) And I think there are one or two more Ig _____ Prize winners in this room. Dan, where are you? Dan Ariely? Applause for Dan. (Applause) Dan won his prize in medicine for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine works better than low-priced fake medicine. (________)

Solution


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  2. conditions
  3. biology
  4. laughter
  5. nobel
  6. ceremony
  7. prize
  8. britain
  9. massachusetts

Original Text


I went — let me remind you that Marc Abrahams didn't call me from Stockholm. He called me from Cambridge, Massachusetts. So I traveled to Boston, to Cambridge, and I went to this wonderful Ig Nobel Prize ceremony held at Harvard University, and this ceremony is a very nice experience. Real Nobel laureates hand you the prize. That's the first thing. And there are nine other winners who get prizes. Here's one of my fellow winners. That's Charles Paxton who won the 2000 biology prize for his paper, "Courtship behavior of ostriches towards humans under farming conditions in Britain." (Laughter) And I think there are one or two more Ig Nobel Prize winners in this room. Dan, where are you? Dan Ariely? Applause for Dan. (Applause) Dan won his prize in medicine for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine works better than low-priced fake medicine. (Laughter)

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