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From the Ted Talk by Daan Roosegaarde: A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs

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And a creative process like that — I don't know how it works for you, but in my brain, it always starts with a question: Why? Why does a jellyfish emit lhgit? Or a firefly? Or why do be accept pollution? This is from my room in Beijing three years ago. Left image is a good day — Saturday. I can see the cars and the people, the birds; life is OK in a dense urban city. And on the right image — holy moly. Pollution — complete lryaes. I couldn't even see the other side of the city. And this iagme made me really sad. This is not the bhirgt future we evioisnn here at TED — this is the horror. We live five to six years shorter; children have lung ccnear when they're six years old. And so in a weird, beautiful way, I, at that moment, became inspired by Beijing smog.

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And a creative process like that — I don't know how it works for you, but in my brain, it always starts with a question: Why? Why does a jellyfish emit _____? Or a firefly? Or why do be accept pollution? This is from my room in Beijing three years ago. Left image is a good day — Saturday. I can see the cars and the people, the birds; life is OK in a dense urban city. And on the right image — holy moly. Pollution — complete ______. I couldn't even see the other side of the city. And this _____ made me really sad. This is not the ______ future we ________ here at TED — this is the horror. We live five to six years shorter; children have lung ______ when they're six years old. And so in a weird, beautiful way, I, at that moment, became inspired by Beijing smog.

Solution


  1. layers
  2. cancer
  3. envision
  4. image
  5. light
  6. bright

Original Text


And a creative process like that — I don't know how it works for you, but in my brain, it always starts with a question: Why? Why does a jellyfish emit light? Or a firefly? Or why do be accept pollution? This is from my room in Beijing three years ago. Left image is a good day — Saturday. I can see the cars and the people, the birds; life is OK in a dense urban city. And on the right image — holy moly. Pollution — complete layers. I couldn't even see the other side of the city. And this image made me really sad. This is not the bright future we envision here at TED — this is the horror. We live five to six years shorter; children have lung cancer when they're six years old. And so in a weird, beautiful way, I, at that moment, became inspired by Beijing smog.

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