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From the Ted Talk by David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans?

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Instead, we're trapped on this very thin slice of piecoetrpn right in the middle. But it gets strange, because even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of the action that's going on. So take the colors of our world. This is lhigt waves, emtrcentlogeaic radiation that bounces off obctjes and it hits specialized rpoeecrts in the back of our eyes. But we're not seeing all the waevs out there. In fact, what we see is less than a 10 trillionth of what's out there. So you have radio waves and microwaves and X-rays and gamma rays passing through your body right now and you're completely unaware of it, because you don't come with the proper biological receptors for pkciing it up. There are thousands of cell phone conversations passing through you right now, and you're utterly blind to it.

Open Cloze

Instead, we're trapped on this very thin slice of __________ right in the middle. But it gets strange, because even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of the action that's going on. So take the colors of our world. This is _____ waves, _______________ radiation that bounces off _______ and it hits specialized _________ in the back of our eyes. But we're not seeing all the _____ out there. In fact, what we see is less than a 10 trillionth of what's out there. So you have radio waves and microwaves and X-rays and gamma rays passing through your body right now and you're completely unaware of it, because you don't come with the proper biological receptors for _______ it up. There are thousands of cell phone conversations passing through you right now, and you're utterly blind to it.

Solution

  1. objects
  2. receptors
  3. light
  4. perception
  5. picking
  6. electromagnetic
  7. waves

Original Text

Instead, we're trapped on this very thin slice of perception right in the middle. But it gets strange, because even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of the action that's going on. So take the colors of our world. This is light waves, electromagnetic radiation that bounces off objects and it hits specialized receptors in the back of our eyes. But we're not seeing all the waves out there. In fact, what we see is less than a 10 trillionth of what's out there. So you have radio waves and microwaves and X-rays and gamma rays passing through your body right now and you're completely unaware of it, because you don't come with the proper biological receptors for picking it up. There are thousands of cell phone conversations passing through you right now, and you're utterly blind to it.

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Important Words

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