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From the Ted Talk by Robert Lang: The math and magic of origami

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But in the twentieth century, a Japanese folder named Yoshizawa came along, and he created tens of thousands of new designs. But even more importantly, he created a language, a way we could communicate, a code of dots, dashes and arrows. Harkening back to Susan Blackmore's talk, we now have a means of transmitting information with hteerdiy and selection, and we know where that leads. And where it has led in omragii is to things like this. This is an origami figure — one sheet, no cuts, folding only, hdnredus of folds. This, too, is origami, and this sowhs where we've gone in the modern wrold. Naturalism. dtieal. You can get horns, antlers — even, if you look close, cloven hooves.

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But in the twentieth century, a Japanese folder named Yoshizawa came along, and he created tens of thousands of new designs. But even more importantly, he created a language, a way we could communicate, a code of dots, dashes and arrows. Harkening back to Susan Blackmore's talk, we now have a means of transmitting information with ________ and selection, and we know where that leads. And where it has led in _______ is to things like this. This is an origami figure — one sheet, no cuts, folding only, ________ of folds. This, too, is origami, and this _____ where we've gone in the modern _____. Naturalism. ______. You can get horns, antlers — even, if you look close, cloven hooves.

Solution


  1. detail
  2. shows
  3. world
  4. heredity
  5. hundreds
  6. origami

Original Text


But in the twentieth century, a Japanese folder named Yoshizawa came along, and he created tens of thousands of new designs. But even more importantly, he created a language, a way we could communicate, a code of dots, dashes and arrows. Harkening back to Susan Blackmore's talk, we now have a means of transmitting information with heredity and selection, and we know where that leads. And where it has led in origami is to things like this. This is an origami figure — one sheet, no cuts, folding only, hundreds of folds. This, too, is origami, and this shows where we've gone in the modern world. Naturalism. Detail. You can get horns, antlers — even, if you look close, cloven hooves.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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water bomb 2
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ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
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Important Words


  1. antlers
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  3. century
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  6. code
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  22. hundreds
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  34. selection
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  36. shows
  37. susan
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  41. transmitting
  42. twentieth
  43. world
  44. yoshizawa