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From the Ted Talk by Manu Prakash: Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper


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(Laughter)

invention from our lab. It's clelad Abuzz — the idea that all of you could help us fhgit mosquitoes; you could all help us track our enemies. These are enemies because they cause malaria, Zika, ciungunkyha, dengue. But the challenge is that we actually don't know where our enemies are. The wlord map for where mosquitoes are is missing. So we started thinking about this. There are 3,500 species of mosquitoes, and they're all very similar. Some of them are so identical that even an entomologist cannot itfinedy them under a microscope.

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OK, in the negative time I have left, I'll tell you about the most recent —

(Laughter)

invention from our lab. It's ______ Abuzz — the idea that all of you could help us _____ mosquitoes; you could all help us track our enemies. These are enemies because they cause malaria, Zika, ___________, dengue. But the challenge is that we actually don't know where our enemies are. The _____ map for where mosquitoes are is missing. So we started thinking about this. There are 3,500 species of mosquitoes, and they're all very similar. Some of them are so identical that even an entomologist cannot ________ them under a microscope.

Solution


  1. called
  2. fight
  3. world
  4. identify
  5. chikungunya

Original Text


OK, in the negative time I have left, I'll tell you about the most recent —

(Laughter)

invention from our lab. It's called Abuzz — the idea that all of you could help us fight mosquitoes; you could all help us track our enemies. These are enemies because they cause malaria, Zika, chikungunya, dengue. But the challenge is that we actually don't know where our enemies are. The world map for where mosquitoes are is missing. So we started thinking about this. There are 3,500 species of mosquitoes, and they're all very similar. Some of them are so identical that even an entomologist cannot identify them under a microscope.

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Important Words


  1. abuzz
  2. called
  3. challenge
  4. chikungunya
  5. dengue
  6. enemies
  7. entomologist
  8. fight
  9. idea
  10. identical
  11. identify
  12. invention
  13. lab
  14. laughter
  15. left
  16. malaria
  17. map
  18. microscope
  19. missing
  20. mosquitoes
  21. negative
  22. similar
  23. species
  24. started
  25. thinking
  26. time
  27. track
  28. world
  29. zika