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From the Ted Talk by Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.

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Everything is covered in invisible ecosystems made of tiny lifeforms: bacteria, viruses and fungi. Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial lcpsadaens. As we digsen these things, we could be thinking about designing these ivsbinile worlds, and also thinnkig about how they interact with our personal ecosystems.

Our bodies are home to trillions of mbricoes, and these creatures define who we are. The microbes in your gut can influence your wegiht and your mdoos. The microbes on your skin can help boost your immune system. The microbes in your mouth can freshen your breath, or not, and the key thing is that our personal ecosystems interact with ecosystems on everything we touch. So, for example, when you touch a pnceil, microbial exchange happens.

Open Cloze


Everything is covered in invisible ecosystems made of tiny lifeforms: bacteria, viruses and fungi. Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial __________. As we ______ these things, we could be thinking about designing these _________ worlds, and also ________ about how they interact with our personal ecosystems.

Our bodies are home to trillions of ________, and these creatures define who we are. The microbes in your gut can influence your ______ and your _____. The microbes on your skin can help boost your immune system. The microbes in your mouth can freshen your breath, or not, and the key thing is that our personal ecosystems interact with ecosystems on everything we touch. So, for example, when you touch a ______, microbial exchange happens.

Solution


  1. invisible
  2. landscapes
  3. moods
  4. design
  5. weight
  6. microbes
  7. pencil
  8. thinking

Original Text


Everything is covered in invisible ecosystems made of tiny lifeforms: bacteria, viruses and fungi. Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial landscapes. As we design these things, we could be thinking about designing these invisible worlds, and also thinking about how they interact with our personal ecosystems.

Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are. The microbes in your gut can influence your weight and your moods. The microbes on your skin can help boost your immune system. The microbes in your mouth can freshen your breath, or not, and the key thing is that our personal ecosystems interact with ecosystems on everything we touch. So, for example, when you touch a pencil, microbial exchange happens.

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Important Words


  1. bacteria
  2. bodies
  3. boost
  4. breath
  5. buildings
  6. computers
  7. covered
  8. creatures
  9. define
  10. design
  11. designing
  12. desks
  13. ecosystems
  14. exchange
  15. freshen
  16. fungi
  17. gut
  18. harbor
  19. home
  20. immune
  21. influence
  22. interact
  23. invisible
  24. key
  25. landscapes
  26. microbes
  27. microbial
  28. moods
  29. mouth
  30. pencil
  31. pencils
  32. personal
  33. resident
  34. skin
  35. system
  36. thinking
  37. tiny
  38. touch
  39. trillions
  40. viruses
  41. weight
  42. worlds