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From the Ted Talk by Paul Bennett: Design is in the details

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So this is not particularly a new idea, kind of, seeing orupntioteips in things that are around you and snapping and turning them into a solution. It's a htrsoiy of ieiontnvn based around this. I'm going to read this because I want to get these names right. Joan Ganz Cooney saw her daughter — came down on a sdaatury morning, saw her daughter watching the test card, witaing for programs to come on one mnnroig and from that came Sesame Street. Malcolm McLean was mivnog from one country to another and was wondering why it took these guys so long to get the boxes onto the ship. And he invented the shipping container. George de Mestral — this is not bugs all over a Birkenstock — was walking his dog in a field and got covered in brrus, sort of little prickly things, and from that came Velcro.

Open Cloze

So this is not particularly a new idea, kind of, seeing _____________ in things that are around you and snapping and turning them into a solution. It's a _______ of _________ based around this. I'm going to read this because I want to get these names right. Joan Ganz Cooney saw her daughter — came down on a ________ morning, saw her daughter watching the test card, _______ for programs to come on one _______ and from that came Sesame Street. Malcolm McLean was ______ from one country to another and was wondering why it took these guys so long to get the boxes onto the ship. And he invented the shipping container. George de Mestral — this is not bugs all over a Birkenstock — was walking his dog in a field and got covered in _____, sort of little prickly things, and from that came Velcro.

Solution

  1. saturday
  2. morning
  3. history
  4. opportunities
  5. waiting
  6. moving
  7. burrs
  8. invention

Original Text

So this is not particularly a new idea, kind of, seeing opportunities in things that are around you and snapping and turning them into a solution. It's a history of invention based around this. I'm going to read this because I want to get these names right. Joan Ganz Cooney saw her daughter — came down on a Saturday morning, saw her daughter watching the test card, waiting for programs to come on one morning and from that came Sesame Street. Malcolm McLean was moving from one country to another and was wondering why it took these guys so long to get the boxes onto the ship. And he invented the shipping container. George de Mestral — this is not bugs all over a Birkenstock — was walking his dog in a field and got covered in burrs, sort of little prickly things, and from that came Velcro.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
huge amount 3
tiny human 2
design solution 2
empathic solution 2
interesting place 2
palm pilot 2
human gesture 2
storage system 2

Important Words

  1. based
  2. birkenstock
  3. boxes
  4. bugs
  5. burrs
  6. card
  7. container
  8. cooney
  9. country
  10. covered
  11. daughter
  12. de
  13. dog
  14. field
  15. ganz
  16. george
  17. guys
  18. history
  19. idea
  20. invented
  21. invention
  22. joan
  23. kind
  24. long
  25. malcolm
  26. mclean
  27. mestral
  28. morning
  29. moving
  30. names
  31. opportunities
  32. prickly
  33. programs
  34. read
  35. saturday
  36. sesame
  37. ship
  38. shipping
  39. snapping
  40. solution
  41. sort
  42. street
  43. test
  44. turning
  45. velcro
  46. waiting
  47. walking
  48. watching
  49. wondering