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From the Ted Talk by John Green: The nerd's guide to learning everything online
Unscramble the Blue Letters
(Laughter)
in the middle of nowhere, etpnxecig there to be a place clelad Agloe — someone built a place called Agloe, New York.
(Laughter)
It had a gas station, a general store, two houses at its peak.
(Laughter)
And this is of course a completely irresistible mepaothr to a novelist, because we would all like to believe that the stuff that we write down on paper can change the actual world in which we're actually lnivig, which is why my third book is called "Paper Towns".
But what itesenrts me ultimately more than the medium in which this happened, is the phenomenon itself. It's easy enough to say that the world shapes our maps of the world, right? Like the overall shape of the world is obviously going to affect our maps. But what I find a lot more interesting is the way that the mneanr in which we map the world changes the world. Because the world would truly be a different palce if ntroh were down. And the world would be a truly different place if aslkaa and Russia weren't on opposite sides of the map. And the wlrod would be a different place if we projected Europe to show it in its aatcul size. The world is changed by our maps of the world. The way that we choose — sort of, our personal cartographic enterprise, also shapes the map of our lives, and that in turn shapes our lives.
Open Cloze
(Laughter)
in the middle of nowhere, _________ there to be a place ______ Agloe — someone built a place called Agloe, New York.
(Laughter)
It had a gas station, a general store, two houses at its peak.
(Laughter)
And this is of course a completely irresistible ________ to a novelist, because we would all like to believe that the stuff that we write down on paper can change the actual world in which we're actually ______, which is why my third book is called "Paper Towns".
But what _________ me ultimately more than the medium in which this happened, is the phenomenon itself. It's easy enough to say that the world shapes our maps of the world, right? Like the overall shape of the world is obviously going to affect our maps. But what I find a lot more interesting is the way that the ______ in which we map the world changes the world. Because the world would truly be a different _____ if _____ were down. And the world would be a truly different place if ______ and Russia weren't on opposite sides of the map. And the _____ would be a different place if we projected Europe to show it in its ______ size. The world is changed by our maps of the world. The way that we choose — sort of, our personal cartographic enterprise, also shapes the map of our lives, and that in turn shapes our lives.
Solution
- place
- called
- manner
- world
- expecting
- living
- metaphor
- alaska
- interests
- north
- actual
Original Text
(Laughter)
in the middle of nowhere, expecting there to be a place called Agloe — someone built a place called Agloe, New York.
(Laughter)
It had a gas station, a general store, two houses at its peak.
(Laughter)
And this is of course a completely irresistible metaphor to a novelist, because we would all like to believe that the stuff that we write down on paper can change the actual world in which we're actually living, which is why my third book is called "Paper Towns".
But what interests me ultimately more than the medium in which this happened, is the phenomenon itself. It's easy enough to say that the world shapes our maps of the world, right? Like the overall shape of the world is obviously going to affect our maps. But what I find a lot more interesting is the way that the manner in which we map the world changes the world. Because the world would truly be a different place if North were down. And the world would be a truly different place if Alaska and Russia weren't on opposite sides of the map. And the world would be a different place if we projected Europe to show it in its actual size. The world is changed by our maps of the world. The way that we choose — sort of, our personal cartographic enterprise, also shapes the map of our lives, and that in turn shapes our lives.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| higgs field |
4 |
| super mario |
3 |
| ze frank |
3 |
| higgs boson |
3 |
| general drafting |
2 |
| paper town |
2 |
| fake place |
2 |
| rand mcnally |
2 |
| dirt roads |
2 |
| place called |
2 |
| terrible student |
2 |
| infinite sets |
2 |
| high school |
2 |
| emily dickinson |
2 |
| opportunity cost |
2 |
| playing super |
2 |
| read books |
2 |
| youtube page |
2 |
| weak nuclear |
2 |
| declared war |
2 |
| infinite series |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
| collocation |
frequency |
| playing super mario |
2 |
Important Words
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- interesting
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- irresistible
- laughter
- lives
- living
- lot
- manner
- map
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- medium
- metaphor
- middle
- north
- novelist
- paper
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- personal
- phenomenon
- place
- projected
- russia
- shape
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- show
- sides
- size
- sort
- station
- store
- stuff
- turn
- ultimately
- world
- write
- york