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From the Ted Talk by Ilona Stengel: The role of human emotions in science and research

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So I didn't really like the news when the company I had been working for — that was my previous employer — announced that they wanted to stop OLED research. At the time, the management had reasons for this dsiieocn, and the capomny handled it very well, actually. Nobody lost their jobs, and everybody was rewarded for their performed work. What I want to show you today is what henpaped with my scientist celgeluaos and me during the time in between the announcement and the last working day on our project. Consider it a small case sudty on eoonmits in science.

In 2015, our research team had grown to more than 80 people, and even after the announcement that our project was discontinued, we could not stop working from one day to another. It took several months to bring all activities to a sound end and to find new jobs within the company for everyone. Here's what happened. Even though we knew that we were wkroing on a project that was to be stopped, during those months our otpuut hit the roof. We were actually working on two different OLED projects: first, the development of materials for blue-shining OLEDs, which had started in 2001; and second, materials for green OLEDs, which had started in 2014. And the results I show you here ccenron the green OLED project.

Open Cloze


So I didn't really like the news when the company I had been working for — that was my previous employer — announced that they wanted to stop OLED research. At the time, the management had reasons for this ________, and the _______ handled it very well, actually. Nobody lost their jobs, and everybody was rewarded for their performed work. What I want to show you today is what ________ with my scientist __________ and me during the time in between the announcement and the last working day on our project. Consider it a small case _____ on ________ in science.

In 2015, our research team had grown to more than 80 people, and even after the announcement that our project was discontinued, we could not stop working from one day to another. It took several months to bring all activities to a sound end and to find new jobs within the company for everyone. Here's what happened. Even though we knew that we were _______ on a project that was to be stopped, during those months our ______ hit the roof. We were actually working on two different OLED projects: first, the development of materials for blue-shining OLEDs, which had started in 2001; and second, materials for green OLEDs, which had started in 2014. And the results I show you here _______ the green OLED project.

Solution


  1. company
  2. output
  3. working
  4. study
  5. decision
  6. colleagues
  7. emotions
  8. happened
  9. concern

Original Text


So I didn't really like the news when the company I had been working for — that was my previous employer — announced that they wanted to stop OLED research. At the time, the management had reasons for this decision, and the company handled it very well, actually. Nobody lost their jobs, and everybody was rewarded for their performed work. What I want to show you today is what happened with my scientist colleagues and me during the time in between the announcement and the last working day on our project. Consider it a small case study on emotions in science.

In 2015, our research team had grown to more than 80 people, and even after the announcement that our project was discontinued, we could not stop working from one day to another. It took several months to bring all activities to a sound end and to find new jobs within the company for everyone. Here's what happened. Even though we knew that we were working on a project that was to be stopped, during those months our output hit the roof. We were actually working on two different OLED projects: first, the development of materials for blue-shining OLEDs, which had started in 2001; and second, materials for green OLEDs, which had started in 2014. And the results I show you here concern the green OLED project.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  12. discontinued
  13. emotions
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  25. materials
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  27. news
  28. oled
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  30. output
  31. people
  32. performed
  33. previous
  34. project
  35. reasons
  36. research
  37. results
  38. rewarded
  39. roof
  40. science
  41. scientist
  42. show
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  44. sound
  45. started
  46. stop
  47. stopped
  48. study
  49. team
  50. time
  51. today
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