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From the Ted Talk by James Stavridis: A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security
Unscramble the Blue Letters
We tie it together, increasingly, by doing things like this. Now, you're looking at this thinking, "Ah, Admiral, these must be sea lanes of cnoticaimomun, or these might be febir optic cables." No. This is a graphic of the world according to Twitter. Purple are tweets. Green are giootcoaeln. White is the synthesis. It's a perfect evocation of that great population survey, the six largest nations in the world in descending order: China, India, Facebook, the United staets, Twitter and Indonesia. (lueahgtr)
Open Cloze
We tie it together, increasingly, by doing things like this. Now, you're looking at this thinking, "Ah, Admiral, these must be sea lanes of _____________, or these might be _____ optic cables." No. This is a graphic of the world according to Twitter. Purple are tweets. Green are ___________. White is the synthesis. It's a perfect evocation of that great population survey, the six largest nations in the world in descending order: China, India, Facebook, the United ______, Twitter and Indonesia. (________)
Solution
- geolocation
- laughter
- fiber
- states
- communication
Original Text
We tie it together, increasingly, by doing things like this. Now, you're looking at this thinking, "Ah, Admiral, these must be sea lanes of communication, or these might be fiber optic cables." No. This is a graphic of the world according to Twitter. Purple are tweets. Green are geolocation. White is the synthesis. It's a perfect evocation of that great population survey, the six largest nations in the world in descending order: China, India, Facebook, the United States, Twitter and Indonesia. (Laughter)
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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