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From the Ted Talk by Sara Seager: The search for planets beyond our solar system

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And that's one of the main things I'm working on now, I have a theory about this. It reminds me that nearly every day, I receive an email or eilmas from someone with a carzy theory about pishycs of gravity or cosmology or some such. So, please don't email me one of your crazy teirehos. (Laughter) Well, I had my own crazy theory. But, who does the MIT professor go to? Well, I emailed a Nobel Laureate in Physiology or mdcineie and he said, "Sure, come and talk to me." So I brought my two bhritoceimsy friends and we went to talk to him about our crazy theory. And that theory was that life produces all salml molecules, so many molecules. Like, everything I could think of, but not being a chemist. Think about it: carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, molecular hydrogen, molecular nitrogen, methane, methyl chloride — so many gases. They also exist for other reasons, but just life even produces ozone. So we go to talk to him about this, and immediately, he shot down the tohery. He found an example that didn't exist. So, we went back to the drawing broad and we think we have found something very interesting in another field.

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And that's one of the main things I'm working on now, I have a theory about this. It reminds me that nearly every day, I receive an email or ______ from someone with a _____ theory about _______ of gravity or cosmology or some such. So, please don't email me one of your crazy ________. (Laughter) Well, I had my own crazy theory. But, who does the MIT professor go to? Well, I emailed a Nobel Laureate in Physiology or ________ and he said, "Sure, come and talk to me." So I brought my two ____________ friends and we went to talk to him about our crazy theory. And that theory was that life produces all _____ molecules, so many molecules. Like, everything I could think of, but not being a chemist. Think about it: carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, molecular hydrogen, molecular nitrogen, methane, methyl chloride — so many gases. They also exist for other reasons, but just life even produces ozone. So we go to talk to him about this, and immediately, he shot down the ______. He found an example that didn't exist. So, we went back to the drawing _____ and we think we have found something very interesting in another field.

Solution

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  3. small
  4. theories
  5. medicine
  6. board
  7. crazy
  8. biochemistry
  9. theory

Original Text

And that's one of the main things I'm working on now, I have a theory about this. It reminds me that nearly every day, I receive an email or emails from someone with a crazy theory about physics of gravity or cosmology or some such. So, please don't email me one of your crazy theories. (Laughter) Well, I had my own crazy theory. But, who does the MIT professor go to? Well, I emailed a Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine and he said, "Sure, come and talk to me." So I brought my two biochemistry friends and we went to talk to him about our crazy theory. And that theory was that life produces all small molecules, so many molecules. Like, everything I could think of, but not being a chemist. Think about it: carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, molecular hydrogen, molecular nitrogen, methane, methyl chloride — so many gases. They also exist for other reasons, but just life even produces ozone. So we go to talk to him about this, and immediately, he shot down the theory. He found an example that didn't exist. So, we went back to the drawing board and we think we have found something very interesting in another field.

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