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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Streb: My quest to defy gravity and fly
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Everywhere I looked, there were things moving. And these things moved with their very own causal rhythms, their very own mechanistic anatomies. It was clear to me — and to Newton — that things move bsead on their component parts: womrs squirmed, bdris flew, kangaroos hppoed. And a human's first bout with flying was falling accidentally, tripping, or slipping on that felabd banana peel. Once your ground is dragged out from under you, a world of wonder comes rushing in.
I had found my territory. I was seized with a compulsion, a primordial urge to leran how to fly, like a haumn. For the next 10 years, I did my experiments alone, on my own body. I drove my Honda 350 across the United States in an "Easy Rider" kind of way. I got my degree in modern dcnae. I mimicked that fly in the box. I dove horizontally through glass; on the way, I peuhcnd a hole in it. I was trying to figure out something about flight.
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Everywhere I looked, there were things moving. And these things moved with their very own causal rhythms, their very own mechanistic anatomies. It was clear to me — and to Newton — that things move _____ on their component parts: _____ squirmed, _____ flew, kangaroos ______. And a human's first bout with flying was falling accidentally, tripping, or slipping on that ______ banana peel. Once your ground is dragged out from under you, a world of wonder comes rushing in.
I had found my territory. I was seized with a compulsion, a primordial urge to _____ how to fly, like a _____. For the next 10 years, I did my experiments alone, on my own body. I drove my Honda 350 across the United States in an "Easy Rider" kind of way. I got my degree in modern _____. I mimicked that fly in the box. I dove horizontally through glass; on the way, I _______ a hole in it. I was trying to figure out something about flight.
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- worms
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Original Text
Everywhere I looked, there were things moving. And these things moved with their very own causal rhythms, their very own mechanistic anatomies. It was clear to me — and to Newton — that things move based on their component parts: worms squirmed, birds flew, kangaroos hopped. And a human's first bout with flying was falling accidentally, tripping, or slipping on that fabled banana peel. Once your ground is dragged out from under you, a world of wonder comes rushing in.
I had found my territory. I was seized with a compulsion, a primordial urge to learn how to fly, like a human. For the next 10 years, I did my experiments alone, on my own body. I drove my Honda 350 across the United States in an "Easy Rider" kind of way. I got my degree in modern dance. I mimicked that fly in the box. I dove horizontally through glass; on the way, I punched a hole in it. I was trying to figure out something about flight.
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