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From the Ted Talk by Steven Johnson: The Web as a city
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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_______ apparently started to reach, but besides that, I think it would be good next year. Another _____ thing — this is a slightly different thing, but this ________ some of you may have seen. It just came out. This is bursty words, looking at the historical record of State of the Union Addresses. So these are words that ________ start to appear out of nowhere, so they're kind of, you know, memes that start taking off, that didn't have a lot of historical precedent before. So the first one is — these are the bursty _____ around 1860s — slaves, emancipation, slavery, _________, Kansas. That's _______ Spears. I mean, you know, OK, interesting. They're talking about slavery in 1860. 1935 — relief, depression, recovery banks. And OK, I didn't learn anything new there as well — that's pretty obvious. 1985, right at the center of the Reagan years — that's, we're, there's, we've, it's.
Solution
- quick
- suddenly
- hubbard
- britney
- rebellion
- words
- analysis
Original Text
Hubbard apparently started to reach, but besides that, I think it would be good next year. Another quick thing — this is a slightly different thing, but this analysis some of you may have seen. It just came out. This is bursty words, looking at the historical record of State of the Union Addresses. So these are words that suddenly start to appear out of nowhere, so they're kind of, you know, memes that start taking off, that didn't have a lot of historical precedent before. So the first one is — these are the bursty words around 1860s — slaves, emancipation, slavery, rebellion, Kansas. That's Britney Spears. I mean, you know, OK, interesting. They're talking about slavery in 1860. 1935 — relief, depression, recovery banks. And OK, I didn't learn anything new there as well — that's pretty obvious. 1985, right at the center of the Reagan years — that's, we're, there's, we've, it's.
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