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From the Ted Talk by Peter Ward: A theory of Earth's mass extinctions

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This is Mark Roth. He was funded by dpraa. Tried to figure out how to save Americans after battlefield injuries. He bleeds out pigs. He puts in 80 parts per million hydrogen sulfide — the same stuff that sivverud these past mass extinctions — and he turns a mmaaml into a reptile. "I believe we are seeing in this rnsopsee the result of mammals and reptiles having undergone a series of exposures to H2S." I got this email from him two years ago; he said, "I think I've got an answer to some of your questions." So, he now has taken mice down for as many as four hours, sometimes six hours, and these are brand-new data he sent me on the way over here. On the top, now, that is a temperature rorced of a mouse who has gone through — the dttoed line, the temperatures. So, the temperature starts at 25 cgteinadre, and down it goes, down it goes. Six hours later, up goes the tarmeetrpue. Now, the same mouse is given 80 parts per million hydrogen siufdle in this solid graph, and look what happens to its temperature. Its temperature drops. It goes down to 15 degrees centigrade from 35, and comes out of this pfreetcly fine.

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This is Mark Roth. He was funded by _____. Tried to figure out how to save Americans after battlefield injuries. He bleeds out pigs. He puts in 80 parts per million hydrogen sulfide — the same stuff that ________ these past mass extinctions — and he turns a ______ into a reptile. "I believe we are seeing in this ________ the result of mammals and reptiles having undergone a series of exposures to H2S." I got this email from him two years ago; he said, "I think I've got an answer to some of your questions." So, he now has taken mice down for as many as four hours, sometimes six hours, and these are brand-new data he sent me on the way over here. On the top, now, that is a temperature ______ of a mouse who has gone through — the ______ line, the temperatures. So, the temperature starts at 25 __________, and down it goes, down it goes. Six hours later, up goes the ___________. Now, the same mouse is given 80 parts per million hydrogen _______ in this solid graph, and look what happens to its temperature. Its temperature drops. It goes down to 15 degrees centigrade from 35, and comes out of this _________ fine.

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  3. darpa
  4. sulfide
  5. survived
  6. temperature
  7. dotted
  8. mammal
  9. record
  10. response

Original Text

This is Mark Roth. He was funded by DARPA. Tried to figure out how to save Americans after battlefield injuries. He bleeds out pigs. He puts in 80 parts per million hydrogen sulfide — the same stuff that survived these past mass extinctions — and he turns a mammal into a reptile. "I believe we are seeing in this response the result of mammals and reptiles having undergone a series of exposures to H2S." I got this email from him two years ago; he said, "I think I've got an answer to some of your questions." So, he now has taken mice down for as many as four hours, sometimes six hours, and these are brand-new data he sent me on the way over here. On the top, now, that is a temperature record of a mouse who has gone through — the dotted line, the temperatures. So, the temperature starts at 25 centigrade, and down it goes, down it goes. Six hours later, up goes the temperature. Now, the same mouse is given 80 parts per million hydrogen sulfide in this solid graph, and look what happens to its temperature. Its temperature drops. It goes down to 15 degrees centigrade from 35, and comes out of this perfectly fine.

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