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From the Ted Talk by Pardis Sabeti: How we'll fight the next deadly virus

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But the way that science works, the position I was in at that point is, I had the data, and I could have worked in a silo for many, many months, analyzed the data carefully, slowly, submitted the ppear for publication, gone through a few back-and-forths, and then finally when the paper came out, might release that data. That's the way the status quo works.

Well, that was not going to work at this point, right? We had fnderis on the front lines and to us it was just oivuobs that what we needed is help, lots of help. So the first thing we did is, as soon as the sequences came off the machines, we peslhibud it to the web. We just rsealeed it to the whole world and said, "Help us." And help came.

Open Cloze


But the way that science works, the position I was in at that point is, I had the data, and I could have worked in a silo for many, many months, analyzed the data carefully, slowly, submitted the _____ for publication, gone through a few back-and-forths, and then finally when the paper came out, might release that data. That's the way the status quo works.

Well, that was not going to work at this point, right? We had _______ on the front lines and to us it was just _______ that what we needed is help, lots of help. So the first thing we did is, as soon as the sequences came off the machines, we _________ it to the web. We just ________ it to the whole world and said, "Help us." And help came.

Solution


  1. published
  2. released
  3. friends
  4. paper
  5. obvious

Original Text


But the way that science works, the position I was in at that point is, I had the data, and I could have worked in a silo for many, many months, analyzed the data carefully, slowly, submitted the paper for publication, gone through a few back-and-forths, and then finally when the paper came out, might release that data. That's the way the status quo works.

Well, that was not going to work at this point, right? We had friends on the front lines and to us it was just obvious that what we needed is help, lots of help. So the first thing we did is, as soon as the sequences came off the machines, we published it to the web. We just released it to the whole world and said, "Help us." And help came.

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Important Words


  1. analyzed
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