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From the Ted Talk by Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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From that came a lot of insights, or outsights, as I called them, things that I learned since losing my sight. These outsights ranged from the trival to the profound, from the mundane to the ________. As an architect, that stark _____________ of my sighted and _________ experience of the same places and the same cities within such a short period of time has given me all sorts of _________ outsights of the city itself. Paramount amongst those was the realization that, actually, cities are fantastic places for the blind. And then I was also surprised by the city's propensity for kindness and care as opposed to indifference or _____. And then I started to _______ that it seemed like the blind seemed to have a positive _________ on the city itself. That was a little curious to me.
Solution
- wonderful
- realize
- humorous
- influence
- worse
- unsighted
- juxtaposition
Original Text
From that came a lot of insights, or outsights, as I called them, things that I learned since losing my sight. These outsights ranged from the trival to the profound, from the mundane to the humorous. As an architect, that stark juxtaposition of my sighted and unsighted experience of the same places and the same cities within such a short period of time has given me all sorts of wonderful outsights of the city itself. Paramount amongst those was the realization that, actually, cities are fantastic places for the blind. And then I was also surprised by the city's propensity for kindness and care as opposed to indifference or worse. And then I started to realize that it seemed like the blind seemed to have a positive influence on the city itself. That was a little curious to me.
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