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From the Ted Talk by Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology

Unscramble the Blue Letters

But is naurte ideal? Are there no parts in nature? I wasn't raised in a riliuoegs Jewish home, but when I was young, my gondathemrr used to tell me stories from the Hebrew Bible, and one of them stuck with me and came to define much of what I care about. As she recounts: "On the third day of Creation, God commands the Earth to grow a fruit-bearing fruit tree." For this first fruit tree, there was to be no differentiation between trunk, branches, leaves and fruit. The whole tree was a fruit. Instead, the land grew teers that have bark and stems and flowers. The land created a wrold made of parts. I often ask myself, "What would desgin be like if objects were made of a sligne part? Would we rerutn to a better state of creation?"

Open Cloze

But is ______ ideal? Are there no parts in nature? I wasn't raised in a _________ Jewish home, but when I was young, my ___________ used to tell me stories from the Hebrew Bible, and one of them stuck with me and came to define much of what I care about. As she recounts: "On the third day of Creation, God commands the Earth to grow a fruit-bearing fruit tree." For this first fruit tree, there was to be no differentiation between trunk, branches, leaves and fruit. The whole tree was a fruit. Instead, the land grew _____ that have bark and stems and flowers. The land created a _____ made of parts. I often ask myself, "What would ______ be like if objects were made of a ______ part? Would we ______ to a better state of creation?"

Solution

  1. grandmother
  2. design
  3. return
  4. nature
  5. religious
  6. single
  7. world
  8. trees

Original Text

But is nature ideal? Are there no parts in nature? I wasn't raised in a religious Jewish home, but when I was young, my grandmother used to tell me stories from the Hebrew Bible, and one of them stuck with me and came to define much of what I care about. As she recounts: "On the third day of Creation, God commands the Earth to grow a fruit-bearing fruit tree." For this first fruit tree, there was to be no differentiation between trunk, branches, leaves and fruit. The whole tree was a fruit. Instead, the land grew trees that have bark and stems and flowers. The land created a world made of parts. I often ask myself, "What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?"

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
biological functionality 2
genetically engineered 2
varying material 2
fruit tree 2
generate structures 2
material properties 2

Important Words

  1. bark
  2. bible
  3. branches
  4. care
  5. commands
  6. created
  7. creation
  8. day
  9. define
  10. design
  11. differentiation
  12. earth
  13. flowers
  14. fruit
  15. god
  16. grandmother
  17. grew
  18. grow
  19. hebrew
  20. home
  21. ideal
  22. jewish
  23. land
  24. leaves
  25. nature
  26. objects
  27. part
  28. parts
  29. raised
  30. religious
  31. return
  32. single
  33. state
  34. stems
  35. stories
  36. stuck
  37. tree
  38. trees
  39. trunk
  40. world
  41. young