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From the Ted Talk by Amanda Schochet: How bumble bees inspired a network of tiny museums

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If you told me five yreas ago that today I'd be delivering a talk about our individual power to make a difference, I would have cringed. It was my job to study huge global systems. I was a rrheceesar at NASA using satellite data to study the big pructie. You can see a lot of things from space, like every eoscsytem on Earth being threatened from pretty much every anlge and global inequality in air and weatr satfey. These kinds of things would keep me up at night. And then outside of work, I'd use this bird's-eye view while thinking about our huge social structures like education and media and health care, and it looked to me like they were all really struggling, too. So I felt like the world was just trapped in this huge self-amplifying system that was just spiraling towards destruction. And of course I wanted to do something about this, and I felt so small and utterly powerless. But I staretd to feel a little dfntrielefy as my pvrpietsece shifted from the macro towards the micro.

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If you told me five _____ ago that today I'd be delivering a talk about our individual power to make a difference, I would have cringed. It was my job to study huge global systems. I was a __________ at NASA using satellite data to study the big _______. You can see a lot of things from space, like every _________ on Earth being threatened from pretty much every _____ and global inequality in air and _____ ______. These kinds of things would keep me up at night. And then outside of work, I'd use this bird's-eye view while thinking about our huge social structures like education and media and health care, and it looked to me like they were all really struggling, too. So I felt like the world was just trapped in this huge self-amplifying system that was just spiraling towards destruction. And of course I wanted to do something about this, and I felt so small and utterly powerless. But I _______ to feel a little ___________ as my ___________ shifted from the macro towards the micro.

Solution


  1. perspective
  2. ecosystem
  3. angle
  4. safety
  5. picture
  6. researcher
  7. years
  8. started
  9. differently
  10. water

Original Text


If you told me five years ago that today I'd be delivering a talk about our individual power to make a difference, I would have cringed. It was my job to study huge global systems. I was a researcher at NASA using satellite data to study the big picture. You can see a lot of things from space, like every ecosystem on Earth being threatened from pretty much every angle and global inequality in air and water safety. These kinds of things would keep me up at night. And then outside of work, I'd use this bird's-eye view while thinking about our huge social structures like education and media and health care, and it looked to me like they were all really struggling, too. So I felt like the world was just trapped in this huge self-amplifying system that was just spiraling towards destruction. And of course I wanted to do something about this, and I felt so small and utterly powerless. But I started to feel a little differently as my perspective shifted from the macro towards the micro.

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