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

Unscramble the Blue Letters

But you don't find hgmoeonuos material assemblies in nature. Take human skin, for example. Our facial sknis are thin with lagre pores. Our back skins are thicker, with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier, and yet it's the same skin: no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gulldaary varies its functionality by vnryiag elasticity. So here this is a split screen to represent my split world view, the split personality of every designer and architect operating today between the chisel and the gene, between machine and organism, between assembly and growth, between Henry Ford and Charles Darwin. These two worldviews, my left brain and right brian, asalinys and shneiysts, will play out on the two screens behind me. My work, at its simplest level, is about uinnitg these two worldviews, moving away from assembly and closer into growth.

Open Cloze

But you don't find __________ material assemblies in nature. Take human skin, for example. Our facial _____ are thin with _____ pores. Our back skins are thicker, with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier, and yet it's the same skin: no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that _________ varies its functionality by _______ elasticity. So here this is a split screen to represent my split world view, the split personality of every designer and architect operating today between the chisel and the gene, between machine and organism, between assembly and growth, between Henry Ford and Charles Darwin. These two worldviews, my left brain and right _____, ________ and _________, will play out on the two screens behind me. My work, at its simplest level, is about _______ these two worldviews, moving away from assembly and closer into growth.

Solution

  1. skins
  2. brain
  3. homogenous
  4. uniting
  5. synthesis
  6. analysis
  7. varying
  8. large
  9. gradually

Original Text

But you don't find homogenous material assemblies in nature. Take human skin, for example. Our facial skins are thin with large pores. Our back skins are thicker, with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier, and yet it's the same skin: no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity. So here this is a split screen to represent my split world view, the split personality of every designer and architect operating today between the chisel and the gene, between machine and organism, between assembly and growth, between Henry Ford and Charles Darwin. These two worldviews, my left brain and right brain, analysis and synthesis, will play out on the two screens behind me. My work, at its simplest level, is about uniting these two worldviews, moving away from assembly and closer into growth.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. acts
  2. analysis
  3. architect
  4. assemblies
  5. assembly
  6. barrier
  7. brain
  8. charles
  9. chisel
  10. closer
  11. darwin
  12. designer
  13. elasticity
  14. facial
  15. filter
  16. find
  17. ford
  18. functionality
  19. gene
  20. gradually
  21. growth
  22. henry
  23. homogenous
  24. human
  25. large
  26. left
  27. level
  28. machine
  29. material
  30. moving
  31. nature
  32. operating
  33. organism
  34. parts
  35. personality
  36. play
  37. pores
  38. represent
  39. screen
  40. screens
  41. simplest
  42. skin
  43. skins
  44. small
  45. split
  46. synthesis
  47. system
  48. thicker
  49. thin
  50. today
  51. uniting
  52. varies
  53. varying
  54. view
  55. work
  56. world
  57. worldviews