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From the Ted Talk by Catherine Mohr: The tradeoffs of building green

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First of all, I'm a geek. I'm an organic food-eating, carbon footprint-minimizing, ribotoc surgery geek. And I really want to build green, but I'm very scpoisiuus of all of these well-meaning actreils, people long on moral authority and short on data, telling me how to do these kinds of things. And so I have to figure this out for myself. For example: Is this evil? I have dropped a blob of organic yogurt from happy self-actualized local cows on my counter top, and I grab a paper towel and I want to wipe it up. But can I use a ppaer teowl? (Laughter)

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First of all, I'm a geek. I'm an organic food-eating, carbon footprint-minimizing, _______ surgery geek. And I really want to build green, but I'm very __________ of all of these well-meaning ________, people long on moral authority and short on data, telling me how to do these kinds of things. And so I have to figure this out for myself. For example: Is this evil? I have dropped a blob of organic yogurt from happy self-actualized local cows on my counter top, and I grab a paper towel and I want to wipe it up. But can I use a _____ _____? (Laughter)

Solution

  1. robotic
  2. articles
  3. towel
  4. suspicious
  5. paper

Original Text

First of all, I'm a geek. I'm an organic food-eating, carbon footprint-minimizing, robotic surgery geek. And I really want to build green, but I'm very suspicious of all of these well-meaning articles, people long on moral authority and short on data, telling me how to do these kinds of things. And so I have to figure this out for myself. For example: Is this evil? I have dropped a blob of organic yogurt from happy self-actualized local cows on my counter top, and I grab a paper towel and I want to wipe it up. But can I use a paper towel? (Laughter)

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