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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Harris: The Web's secret stories
Unscramble the Blue Letters
What you see here is a madly swarming mass of particles, each of which represents a single human feeling that was stated in the last few horus. The color of each pitacrle corresponds to the type of feeling inside — so that happy, pitiovse feelings are bgrtlihy colored. And sad, negative feelings are drkaly celoord. The diameter of each dot represents the legtnh of the sentence inside, so that the lagre dots contain large sentences, and the small dots contain small sentences. Any dot can be clicked and expanded. And we see here, "I would just feel so much better if I could curl up in his arms right now and feel his affection for me in the erabmce of his body and the tenderness of his lips." So it gets pretty hot and steamy sometimes in the world of human emotions. And all of these are settad by people: "I know that objectively it really doesn't mean much, but after spending so many years as a small fish in a big pond, it's nice to feel bigger again."
Open Cloze
What you see here is a madly swarming mass of particles, each of which represents a single human feeling that was stated in the last few _____. The color of each ________ corresponds to the type of feeling inside — so that happy, ________ feelings are ________ colored. And sad, negative feelings are ______ _______. The diameter of each dot represents the ______ of the sentence inside, so that the _____ dots contain large sentences, and the small dots contain small sentences. Any dot can be clicked and expanded. And we see here, "I would just feel so much better if I could curl up in his arms right now and feel his affection for me in the _______ of his body and the tenderness of his lips." So it gets pretty hot and steamy sometimes in the world of human emotions. And all of these are ______ by people: "I know that objectively it really doesn't mean much, but after spending so many years as a small fish in a big pond, it's nice to feel bigger again."
Solution
- colored
- hours
- darkly
- positive
- large
- stated
- brightly
- particle
- length
- embrace
Original Text
What you see here is a madly swarming mass of particles, each of which represents a single human feeling that was stated in the last few hours. The color of each particle corresponds to the type of feeling inside — so that happy, positive feelings are brightly colored. And sad, negative feelings are darkly colored. The diameter of each dot represents the length of the sentence inside, so that the large dots contain large sentences, and the small dots contain small sentences. Any dot can be clicked and expanded. And we see here, "I would just feel so much better if I could curl up in his arms right now and feel his affection for me in the embrace of his body and the tenderness of his lips." So it gets pretty hot and steamy sometimes in the world of human emotions. And all of these are stated by people: "I know that objectively it really doesn't mean much, but after spending so many years as a small fish in a big pond, it's nice to feel bigger again."
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
time capsule |
5 |
bill clinton |
5 |
feel fine |
4 |
climate change |
4 |
night sky |
3 |
world today |
2 |
geographical location |
2 |
great stories |
2 |
aurora borealis |
2 |
personal mythology |
2 |
Important Words
- affection
- arms
- big
- bigger
- body
- brightly
- clicked
- color
- colored
- corresponds
- curl
- darkly
- diameter
- dot
- dots
- embrace
- emotions
- expanded
- feel
- feeling
- feelings
- fish
- happy
- hot
- hours
- human
- large
- length
- lips
- madly
- mass
- negative
- nice
- objectively
- particle
- particles
- pond
- positive
- pretty
- represents
- sad
- sentence
- sentences
- single
- small
- spending
- stated
- steamy
- swarming
- tenderness
- type
- world
- years