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

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So what I'm first going to show you is air that we spleamd outside of the building. What you're looking at is a signature of bceiaatrl communities in the otuoodr air, and how they vary over time. Next I'm going to show you what happened when we experimentally mapltnuiead crslmaosos. We blocked them off at ngiht so that they got no ventilation. A lot of buildings are operated this way, probably where you work, and cimnapeos do this to save money on their energy bill. What we found is that these rooms remained relatively saganntt until Saturday, when we opened the vents up again. When you walked into those rooms, they smelled really bad, and our data suggests that it had something to do with leaving behind the arrnobie bacterial soup from people the day before. Contrast this to rooms that were designed using a sbisalnutae passive design strategy where air came in from the outside through louvers. In these rooms, the air tracked the outdoor air relatively well, and when Charlie saw this, he got really excited. He felt like he had made a good choice with the design process because it was both energy efficient and it washed away the building's resident microbial lsapcndae.

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So what I'm first going to show you is air that we _______ outside of the building. What you're looking at is a signature of _________ communities in the _______ air, and how they vary over time. Next I'm going to show you what happened when we experimentally ___________ __________. We blocked them off at _____ so that they got no ventilation. A lot of buildings are operated this way, probably where you work, and _________ do this to save money on their energy bill. What we found is that these rooms remained relatively ________ until Saturday, when we opened the vents up again. When you walked into those rooms, they smelled really bad, and our data suggests that it had something to do with leaving behind the ________ bacterial soup from people the day before. Contrast this to rooms that were designed using a ___________ passive design strategy where air came in from the outside through louvers. In these rooms, the air tracked the outdoor air relatively well, and when Charlie saw this, he got really excited. He felt like he had made a good choice with the design process because it was both energy efficient and it washed away the building's resident microbial _________.

Solution


  1. companies
  2. sampled
  3. sustainable
  4. night
  5. stagnant
  6. classrooms
  7. landscape
  8. outdoor
  9. bacterial
  10. manipulated
  11. airborne

Original Text


So what I'm first going to show you is air that we sampled outside of the building. What you're looking at is a signature of bacterial communities in the outdoor air, and how they vary over time. Next I'm going to show you what happened when we experimentally manipulated classrooms. We blocked them off at night so that they got no ventilation. A lot of buildings are operated this way, probably where you work, and companies do this to save money on their energy bill. What we found is that these rooms remained relatively stagnant until Saturday, when we opened the vents up again. When you walked into those rooms, they smelled really bad, and our data suggests that it had something to do with leaving behind the airborne bacterial soup from people the day before. Contrast this to rooms that were designed using a sustainable passive design strategy where air came in from the outside through louvers. In these rooms, the air tracked the outdoor air relatively well, and when Charlie saw this, he got really excited. He felt like he had made a good choice with the design process because it was both energy efficient and it washed away the building's resident microbial landscape.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  43. sampled
  44. saturday
  45. save
  46. show
  47. signature
  48. smelled
  49. soup
  50. stagnant
  51. strategy
  52. suggests
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  58. vents
  59. walked
  60. washed
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