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From the Ted Talk by Katrina Spade: When I die, recompose me

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

So I would definitely call myself a decomposition nerd, but I am far, far from a scientist, and one way you can tell this is true is that I have often called the process of composting "magic."

(Laughter)

So basically, all we humans need to do is cartee the right environment for nature to do its job. It's like the opposite of antibacterial soap. Instead of ftiignhg them, we welcome mrcbeois and bcaretia in with open arms. These tiny, amazing creatures break down moeellcus into smaller molecules and atoms, which are then incorporated into new molecules. In other words, that cow is transformed. It's no longer a cow. It's been cycled back into nature. See? Magic.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

So I would definitely call myself a decomposition nerd, but I am far, far from a scientist, and one way you can tell this is true is that I have often called the process of composting "magic."

(Laughter)

So basically, all we humans need to do is ______ the right environment for nature to do its job. It's like the opposite of antibacterial soap. Instead of ________ them, we welcome ________ and ________ in with open arms. These tiny, amazing creatures break down _________ into smaller molecules and atoms, which are then incorporated into new molecules. In other words, that cow is transformed. It's no longer a cow. It's been cycled back into nature. See? Magic.

Solution


  1. create
  2. fighting
  3. molecules
  4. bacteria
  5. microbes

Original Text


(Laughter)

So I would definitely call myself a decomposition nerd, but I am far, far from a scientist, and one way you can tell this is true is that I have often called the process of composting "magic."

(Laughter)

So basically, all we humans need to do is create the right environment for nature to do its job. It's like the opposite of antibacterial soap. Instead of fighting them, we welcome microbes and bacteria in with open arms. These tiny, amazing creatures break down molecules into smaller molecules and atoms, which are then incorporated into new molecules. In other words, that cow is transformed. It's no longer a cow. It's been cycled back into nature. See? Magic.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
mortality composting 4
death care 3
livestock mortality 3
wood chips 3
funerary practices 2
americans choose 2
conventional burial 2
cremation rates 2
bacteria break 2
human beings 2
human composting 2
composting facility 2
natural decomposition 2
build facilities 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
livestock mortality composting 3
human composting facility 2

Important Words


  1. amazing
  2. antibacterial
  3. arms
  4. atoms
  5. bacteria
  6. basically
  7. break
  8. call
  9. called
  10. composting
  11. cow
  12. create
  13. creatures
  14. cycled
  15. decomposition
  16. environment
  17. fighting
  18. humans
  19. incorporated
  20. job
  21. laughter
  22. longer
  23. magic
  24. microbes
  25. molecules
  26. nature
  27. nerd
  28. open
  29. process
  30. scientist
  31. smaller
  32. soap
  33. tiny
  34. transformed
  35. true
  36. words