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From the Ted Talk by Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And one day, we were walking. We were in France, in Les Houches. We were up in the minuanots, 1976. And Feynman said to me, "Leonardo ..." The reason he called me "Leonardo" is because we were in Europe, and he was practicing his French.

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And he said, "Leonardo, were you closer to your mother or your ftehar when you were a kid?" I said, "Well, my real hero was my father. He was a working man, had a fifth-grade education. He was a master mechanic, and he taught me how to use tolos. He taught me all sorts of things about mechanical things. He even taught me the phtyegaroan theorem. He didn't call it the hypotenuse, he called it the shortcut dctsinae."

Open Cloze


And one day, we were walking. We were in France, in Les Houches. We were up in the _________, 1976. And Feynman said to me, "Leonardo ..." The reason he called me "Leonardo" is because we were in Europe, and he was practicing his French.

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And he said, "Leonardo, were you closer to your mother or your ______ when you were a kid?" I said, "Well, my real hero was my father. He was a working man, had a fifth-grade education. He was a master mechanic, and he taught me how to use _____. He taught me all sorts of things about mechanical things. He even taught me the ___________ theorem. He didn't call it the hypotenuse, he called it the shortcut ________."

Solution


  1. tools
  2. distance
  3. laughter
  4. pythagorean
  5. father
  6. mountains

Original Text


And one day, we were walking. We were in France, in Les Houches. We were up in the mountains, 1976. And Feynman said to me, "Leonardo ..." The reason he called me "Leonardo" is because we were in Europe, and he was practicing his French.

(Laughter)

And he said, "Leonardo, were you closer to your mother or your father when you were a kid?" I said, "Well, my real hero was my father. He was a working man, had a fifth-grade education. He was a master mechanic, and he taught me how to use tools. He taught me all sorts of things about mechanical things. He even taught me the Pythagorean theorem. He didn't call it the hypotenuse, he called it the shortcut distance."

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