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From the Ted Talk by Kevin B. Jones: Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine

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Now, very importantly, all the new thinking that outliers and exceptions lead us to in midceine does not only apply to the outliers and exceptions. It is not that we only learn from sarcoma patients ways to manage sarcoma patients. Sometimes, the oultires and the exceptions teach us things that matter quite a lot to the general population. Like a tree sitnandg outside a forest, the outliers and the epocixetns draw our anteotitn and lead us into a much greater sense of perhaps what a tree is. We often talk about losing the forests for the trees, but one also loses a tree within a fresot. But the tree that sntdas out by itself makes those relationships that define a tree, the relationships between trunk and rtoos and branches, much more apparent. Even if that tree is crooked or even if that tree has very unusual relationships between trunk and roots and bacenrhs, it nonetheless draws our attention and allows us to make observations that we can then test in the general population.

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Now, very importantly, all the new thinking that outliers and exceptions lead us to in ________ does not only apply to the outliers and exceptions. It is not that we only learn from sarcoma patients ways to manage sarcoma patients. Sometimes, the ________ and the exceptions teach us things that matter quite a lot to the general population. Like a tree ________ outside a forest, the outliers and the __________ draw our _________ and lead us into a much greater sense of perhaps what a tree is. We often talk about losing the forests for the trees, but one also loses a tree within a ______. But the tree that ______ out by itself makes those relationships that define a tree, the relationships between trunk and _____ and branches, much more apparent. Even if that tree is crooked or even if that tree has very unusual relationships between trunk and roots and ________, it nonetheless draws our attention and allows us to make observations that we can then test in the general population.

Solution


  1. outliers
  2. standing
  3. stands
  4. medicine
  5. forest
  6. attention
  7. branches
  8. roots
  9. exceptions

Original Text


Now, very importantly, all the new thinking that outliers and exceptions lead us to in medicine does not only apply to the outliers and exceptions. It is not that we only learn from sarcoma patients ways to manage sarcoma patients. Sometimes, the outliers and the exceptions teach us things that matter quite a lot to the general population. Like a tree standing outside a forest, the outliers and the exceptions draw our attention and lead us into a much greater sense of perhaps what a tree is. We often talk about losing the forests for the trees, but one also loses a tree within a forest. But the tree that stands out by itself makes those relationships that define a tree, the relationships between trunk and roots and branches, much more apparent. Even if that tree is crooked or even if that tree has very unusual relationships between trunk and roots and branches, it nonetheless draws our attention and allows us to make observations that we can then test in the general population.

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