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From the Ted Talk by Anne Madden: Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face

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For the last 100 years, we've had an adversarial relationship with the microscopic life nearest us. If I told you there was a bug in your huose or bacteria in your sink, there was a human-devised solution for that, a product to erdictaae, exterminate, disinfect. We stvire to remove most of the microscopic life in our world now. But in doing so, we're ignoring the best source of new technology on this planet. The last 100 years have furetead human solutions to microbial problems, but the next 100 years will fetarue microbial solutions to human prbemlos.

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For the last 100 years, we've had an adversarial relationship with the microscopic life nearest us. If I told you there was a bug in your _____ or bacteria in your sink, there was a human-devised solution for that, a product to _________, exterminate, disinfect. We ______ to remove most of the microscopic life in our world now. But in doing so, we're ignoring the best source of new technology on this planet. The last 100 years have ________ human solutions to microbial problems, but the next 100 years will _______ microbial solutions to human ________.

Solution

  1. featured
  2. problems
  3. eradicate
  4. strive
  5. feature
  6. house

Original Text

For the last 100 years, we've had an adversarial relationship with the microscopic life nearest us. If I told you there was a bug in your house or bacteria in your sink, there was a human-devised solution for that, a product to eradicate, exterminate, disinfect. We strive to remove most of the microscopic life in our world now. But in doing so, we're ignoring the best source of new technology on this planet. The last 100 years have featured human solutions to microbial problems, but the next 100 years will feature microbial solutions to human problems.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
microscopic life 8
microscopic creatures 3
microorganism species 3
life nearest 2
human problems 2
similar soil 2
soil bacteria 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
microscopic life nearest 2
similar soil bacteria 2

Important Words

  1. adversarial
  2. bacteria
  3. bug
  4. disinfect
  5. eradicate
  6. exterminate
  7. feature
  8. featured
  9. house
  10. human
  11. ignoring
  12. life
  13. microbial
  14. microscopic
  15. nearest
  16. planet
  17. problems
  18. product
  19. relationship
  20. remove
  21. sink
  22. solution
  23. solutions
  24. source
  25. strive
  26. technology
  27. told
  28. world
  29. years