full transcript

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

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Another facet of how microbes get around is by people, and designers often cluster rooms together to faitactile interactions among people, or the sniarhg of ideas, like in labs and in offices. Given that microbes travel around with people, you might expect to see rmoos that are close together have really smiilar biomes. And that is exactly what we found. If you look at classrooms right adjacent to one another, they have very similar ecosystems, but if you go to an office that is a farther walking distance away, the ecosystem is fdmaanlnlteuy different. And when I see the power that dispersal has on these biogeographic patterns, it makes me think that it's possible to tackle really challenging problems, like hospital-acquired infections. I believe this has got to be, in part, a building ecology problem.

Open Cloze


Another facet of how microbes get around is by people, and designers often cluster rooms together to __________ interactions among people, or the _______ of ideas, like in labs and in offices. Given that microbes travel around with people, you might expect to see _____ that are close together have really _______ biomes. And that is exactly what we found. If you look at classrooms right adjacent to one another, they have very similar ecosystems, but if you go to an office that is a farther walking distance away, the ecosystem is _____________ different. And when I see the power that dispersal has on these biogeographic patterns, it makes me think that it's possible to tackle really challenging problems, like hospital-acquired infections. I believe this has got to be, in part, a building ecology problem.

Solution


  1. sharing
  2. facilitate
  3. similar
  4. rooms
  5. fundamentally

Original Text


Another facet of how microbes get around is by people, and designers often cluster rooms together to facilitate interactions among people, or the sharing of ideas, like in labs and in offices. Given that microbes travel around with people, you might expect to see rooms that are close together have really similar biomes. And that is exactly what we found. If you look at classrooms right adjacent to one another, they have very similar ecosystems, but if you go to an office that is a farther walking distance away, the ecosystem is fundamentally different. And when I see the power that dispersal has on these biogeographic patterns, it makes me think that it's possible to tackle really challenging problems, like hospital-acquired infections. I believe this has got to be, in part, a building ecology problem.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
air handling 4
invisible ecosystems 2
resident microbial 2
personal ecosystems 2
mechanical engineers 2
handling units 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
air handling units 2

Important Words


  1. adjacent
  2. biogeographic
  3. biomes
  4. building
  5. challenging
  6. classrooms
  7. close
  8. cluster
  9. designers
  10. dispersal
  11. distance
  12. ecology
  13. ecosystem
  14. ecosystems
  15. expect
  16. facet
  17. facilitate
  18. fundamentally
  19. ideas
  20. infections
  21. interactions
  22. labs
  23. microbes
  24. office
  25. offices
  26. part
  27. patterns
  28. people
  29. power
  30. problem
  31. problems
  32. rooms
  33. sharing
  34. similar
  35. tackle
  36. travel
  37. walking