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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


All right, I'm going to tell you one more story about this building. I am collaborating with Charlie bowrn. He's an arciehtct, and Charlie is deeply concerned about global climate change. He's dedicated his life to sustainable design. When he met me and realized that it was possible for him to study in a quantitative way how his diegsn ciechos impacted the ecology and biology of this building, he got really etxeicd, because it added a new dimension to what he did. He went from thinking just about energy to also starting to think about human health. He helped design some of the air handling ssytems in this building and the way it was ventilated.

Open Cloze


All right, I'm going to tell you one more story about this building. I am collaborating with Charlie _____. He's an _________, and Charlie is deeply concerned about global climate change. He's dedicated his life to sustainable design. When he met me and realized that it was possible for him to study in a quantitative way how his ______ _______ impacted the ecology and biology of this building, he got really _______, because it added a new dimension to what he did. He went from thinking just about energy to also starting to think about human health. He helped design some of the air handling _______ in this building and the way it was ventilated.

Solution


  1. systems
  2. excited
  3. design
  4. architect
  5. choices
  6. brown

Original Text


All right, I'm going to tell you one more story about this building. I am collaborating with Charlie Brown. He's an architect, and Charlie is deeply concerned about global climate change. He's dedicated his life to sustainable design. When he met me and realized that it was possible for him to study in a quantitative way how his design choices impacted the ecology and biology of this building, he got really excited, because it added a new dimension to what he did. He went from thinking just about energy to also starting to think about human health. He helped design some of the air handling systems in this building and the way it was ventilated.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
air handling 4
invisible ecosystems 2
resident microbial 2
personal ecosystems 2
mechanical engineers 2
handling units 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
air handling units 2

Important Words


  1. added
  2. air
  3. architect
  4. biology
  5. brown
  6. building
  7. change
  8. charlie
  9. choices
  10. climate
  11. collaborating
  12. concerned
  13. dedicated
  14. deeply
  15. design
  16. dimension
  17. ecology
  18. energy
  19. excited
  20. global
  21. handling
  22. health
  23. helped
  24. human
  25. impacted
  26. life
  27. met
  28. quantitative
  29. realized
  30. starting
  31. story
  32. study
  33. sustainable
  34. systems
  35. thinking
  36. ventilated