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From the Ted Talk by Ed Yong: Zombie roaches and other parasite tales
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And I think that this capacity to constantly subvert our way of thninkig about the world makes parasites amazing. They're constantly inviting us to look at the nauatrl world saidywes, and to ask if the behaviors we're seeing, whether they're smiple and obvious or baffling and pzznluig, are not the results of individuals acting through their own accord but because they are being bent to the control of something else. And while that idea may be disquieting, and while parasites' habits may be very grisly, I think that ability to surprise us makes them as wonderful and as charismatic as any panda or butterfly or dolphin.
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And I think that this capacity to constantly subvert our way of ________ about the world makes parasites amazing. They're constantly inviting us to look at the _______ world ________, and to ask if the behaviors we're seeing, whether they're ______ and obvious or baffling and ________, are not the results of individuals acting through their own accord but because they are being bent to the control of something else. And while that idea may be disquieting, and while parasites' habits may be very grisly, I think that ability to surprise us makes them as wonderful and as charismatic as any panda or butterfly or dolphin.
Solution
- sideways
- puzzling
- natural
- simple
- thinking
Original Text
And I think that this capacity to constantly subvert our way of thinking about the world makes parasites amazing. They're constantly inviting us to look at the natural world sideways, and to ask if the behaviors we're seeing, whether they're simple and obvious or baffling and puzzling, are not the results of individuals acting through their own accord but because they are being bent to the control of something else. And while that idea may be disquieting, and while parasites' habits may be very grisly, I think that ability to surprise us makes them as wonderful and as charismatic as any panda or butterfly or dolphin.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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Important Words
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- charismatic
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- panda
- parasites
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- surprise
- thinking
- wonderful
- world