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From the Ted Talk by Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?


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I'd like to apologize, first of all, to all of you because I have no form of PowerPoint presentation. So what I'm going to do is, every now and again, I will make this gesture, and in a moment of PowerPoint democracy, you can imagine what you'd like to see.

I do a riado show. The radio show is called "The Infinite moenky Cage." It's about sceicne, it's about rationalism. So therefore, we get a lot of complaints every single week — complaints inliudncg one we get very often, which is to say the very title, "Infinite Monkey Cage," celebrates the idea of vivisection. We have made it quite clear to these poplee that an itnfinie monkey cage is roomy.

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I'd like to apologize, first of all, to all of you because I have no form of PowerPoint presentation. So what I'm going to do is, every now and again, I will make this gesture, and in a moment of PowerPoint democracy, you can imagine what you'd like to see.

I do a _____ show. The radio show is called "The Infinite ______ Cage." It's about _______, it's about rationalism. So therefore, we get a lot of complaints every single week — complaints _________ one we get very often, which is to say the very title, "Infinite Monkey Cage," celebrates the idea of vivisection. We have made it quite clear to these ______ that an ________ monkey cage is roomy.

Solution


  1. including
  2. science
  3. people
  4. infinite
  5. monkey
  6. radio

Original Text


I'd like to apologize, first of all, to all of you because I have no form of PowerPoint presentation. So what I'm going to do is, every now and again, I will make this gesture, and in a moment of PowerPoint democracy, you can imagine what you'd like to see.

I do a radio show. The radio show is called "The Infinite Monkey Cage." It's about science, it's about rationalism. So therefore, we get a lot of complaints every single week — complaints including one we get very often, which is to say the very title, "Infinite Monkey Cage," celebrates the idea of vivisection. We have made it quite clear to these people that an infinite monkey cage is roomy.

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