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From the Ted Talk by Amanda Schochet: How bumble bees inspired a network of tiny museums
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
If you told me five years ago that today I'd be delivering a talk about our individual power to make a __________, I would have _______. It was my job to study huge global systems. I was a researcher at NASA using satellite data to study the big picture. You can see a lot of things from _____, like every ecosystem on Earth being threatened from ______ much every _____ and global inequality in air and water safety. These kinds of things would keep me up at night. And then outside of work, I'd use this bird's-eye view while thinking about our huge social structures like education and _____ and health care, and it looked to me like they were all really struggling, too. So I felt like the world was just trapped in this huge self-amplifying ______ that was just _________ towards destruction. And of course I wanted to do something about this, and I felt so small and utterly _________. But I started to feel a little differently as my perspective shifted from the macro towards the _____.
Solution
- powerless
- system
- angle
- difference
- micro
- media
- cringed
- pretty
- spiraling
- space
Original Text
If you told me five years ago that today I'd be delivering a talk about our individual power to make a difference, I would have cringed. It was my job to study huge global systems. I was a researcher at NASA using satellite data to study the big picture. You can see a lot of things from space, like every ecosystem on Earth being threatened from pretty much every angle and global inequality in air and water safety. These kinds of things would keep me up at night. And then outside of work, I'd use this bird's-eye view while thinking about our huge social structures like education and media and health care, and it looked to me like they were all really struggling, too. So I felt like the world was just trapped in this huge self-amplifying system that was just spiraling towards destruction. And of course I wanted to do something about this, and I felt so small and utterly powerless. But I started to feel a little differently as my perspective shifted from the macro towards the micro.
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