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From the Ted Talk by Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner

Unscramble the Blue Letters


My mom's an artist, and as a child, I'd often see her brnig things to life with the srokte of a brush. One mnmeot, it was all white space, pure possibility. The next, it was alive with her colorful ideas and expressions. As I sat easel-side, watching her tnrrasfom canvas after canvas, I learned that you could create your own world. I learned that our own inner wrdols — our ideas, emotions and iiimangoants — were, in fact, not bound by our brains and beodis. If you could think it, if you could discover it, you could bring it to life.

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush — one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us. I look forward to the day that I can sit beside you, easel-side, watching the wlord that we can create with our new toolboxes and the discoveries that we can make about ourselves.

Open Cloze


My mom's an artist, and as a child, I'd often see her _____ things to life with the ______ of a brush. One ______, it was all white space, pure possibility. The next, it was alive with her colorful ideas and expressions. As I sat easel-side, watching her _________ canvas after canvas, I learned that you could create your own world. I learned that our own inner ______ — our ideas, emotions and ____________ — were, in fact, not bound by our brains and ______. If you could think it, if you could discover it, you could bring it to life.

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush — one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us. I look forward to the day that I can sit beside you, easel-side, watching the _____ that we can create with our new toolboxes and the discoveries that we can make about ourselves.

Solution


  1. transform
  2. world
  3. imaginations
  4. bring
  5. moment
  6. worlds
  7. stroke
  8. bodies

Original Text


My mom's an artist, and as a child, I'd often see her bring things to life with the stroke of a brush. One moment, it was all white space, pure possibility. The next, it was alive with her colorful ideas and expressions. As I sat easel-side, watching her transform canvas after canvas, I learned that you could create your own world. I learned that our own inner worlds — our ideas, emotions and imaginations — were, in fact, not bound by our brains and bodies. If you could think it, if you could discover it, you could bring it to life.

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush — one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us. I look forward to the day that I can sit beside you, easel-side, watching the world that we can create with our new toolboxes and the discoveries that we can make about ourselves.

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Important Words


  1. alive
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  3. bodies
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  5. brains
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  10. colorful
  11. computing
  12. create
  13. day
  14. discover
  15. discoveries
  16. emotions
  17. enliven
  18. expressions
  19. fact
  20. hidden
  21. ideas
  22. imaginations
  23. learned
  24. life
  25. moment
  26. paintbrush
  27. possibility
  28. powerful
  29. pure
  30. sat
  31. simple
  32. sit
  33. space
  34. stroke
  35. tool
  36. toolboxes
  37. transform
  38. unlock
  39. watching
  40. white
  41. world
  42. worlds