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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
- grandmother
- design
- return
- nature
- religious
- single
- world
- 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
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biological functionality |
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Important Words
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