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From the Ted Talk by Dan Widmaier: The future of fashion -- made from mushrooms

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So I started a PhD, and I actually fell in love with one of these mtiarales from nature. And it's this -- it's spider silk. It's this fine, elegant, tugoh fiber that spiders make. You've probably seen a Spider-Man moive, you know. You may have wanted to make Peter Parker's web slinger. It's OK -- I did, too; it's baadss. I wanted to recreate that material in a lab, so I started a company, and we did just that. And the very first product we made was this: a tie. I took the very first tie, and I sent it to Stan Lee himself, cocreator of Spider-Man, idol to nerds around the planet, all-around amazing human. And he loved it. He actually cold-called my pnhoe from a bkcleod number, and we geeked out over the technology.

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So I started a PhD, and I actually fell in love with one of these _________ from nature. And it's this -- it's spider silk. It's this fine, elegant, _____ fiber that spiders make. You've probably seen a Spider-Man _____, you know. You may have wanted to make Peter Parker's web slinger. It's OK -- I did, too; it's ______. I wanted to recreate that material in a lab, so I started a company, and we did just that. And the very first product we made was this: a tie. I took the very first tie, and I sent it to Stan Lee himself, cocreator of Spider-Man, idol to nerds around the planet, all-around amazing human. And he loved it. He actually cold-called my _____ from a _______ number, and we geeked out over the technology.

Solution

  1. blocked
  2. materials
  3. badass
  4. phone
  5. movie
  6. tough

Original Text

So I started a PhD, and I actually fell in love with one of these materials from nature. And it's this -- it's spider silk. It's this fine, elegant, tough fiber that spiders make. You've probably seen a Spider-Man movie, you know. You may have wanted to make Peter Parker's web slinger. It's OK -- I did, too; it's badass. I wanted to recreate that material in a lab, so I started a company, and we did just that. And the very first product we made was this: a tie. I took the very first tie, and I sent it to Stan Lee himself, cocreator of Spider-Man, idol to nerds around the planet, all-around amazing human. And he loved it. He actually cold-called my phone from a blocked number, and we geeked out over the technology.

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