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From the Ted Talk by Robert Full: The sticky wonder of gecko feet

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There's eonurmos interest in this in a variety of different fields. You could think of a tshonaud possible uses, I'm sure. Lots of people have, and we're excited about realizing this as a product. We have imagined products; for example, this one: we imagined a bio-inspired Band-Aid, where we took the glue off the Band-Aid. We took some hiras from a molting gecko; put three rolls of them on here, and then made this Band-Aid.

This is an undergraduate volunteer — we have 30,000 undergraduates so we can choose among them — that's actually just a red pen mark. But it makes an incredible Band-Aid. It's aerated, it can be peeled off easily, it doesn't cause any irritation, it works underwater. I think this is an extraordinary example of how curiosity-based raeesrch — we just wdenerod how they climbed up something — can lead to things that you could never imagine. It's just an example of why we need to supoprt curiosity-based research. Here you are, pulling off the Band-Aid.

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There's ________ interest in this in a variety of different fields. You could think of a ________ possible uses, I'm sure. Lots of people have, and we're excited about realizing this as a product. We have imagined products; for example, this one: we imagined a bio-inspired Band-Aid, where we took the glue off the Band-Aid. We took some _____ from a molting gecko; put three rolls of them on here, and then made this Band-Aid.

This is an undergraduate volunteer — we have 30,000 undergraduates so we can choose among them — that's actually just a red pen mark. But it makes an incredible Band-Aid. It's aerated, it can be peeled off easily, it doesn't cause any irritation, it works underwater. I think this is an extraordinary example of how curiosity-based ________ — we just ________ how they climbed up something — can lead to things that you could never imagine. It's just an example of why we need to _______ curiosity-based research. Here you are, pulling off the Band-Aid.

Solution


  1. enormous
  2. thousand
  3. wondered
  4. support
  5. research
  6. hairs

Original Text


There's enormous interest in this in a variety of different fields. You could think of a thousand possible uses, I'm sure. Lots of people have, and we're excited about realizing this as a product. We have imagined products; for example, this one: we imagined a bio-inspired Band-Aid, where we took the glue off the Band-Aid. We took some hairs from a molting gecko; put three rolls of them on here, and then made this Band-Aid.

This is an undergraduate volunteer — we have 30,000 undergraduates so we can choose among them — that's actually just a red pen mark. But it makes an incredible Band-Aid. It's aerated, it can be peeled off easily, it doesn't cause any irritation, it works underwater. I think this is an extraordinary example of how curiosity-based research — we just wondered how they climbed up something — can lead to things that you could never imagine. It's just an example of why we need to support curiosity-based research. Here you are, pulling off the Band-Aid.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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