AC - Use of English Word Formation and Multiple  ...

The real question is how do we slow things down in a world that seems to be moving at a ..... avidity, briskness, momentum, pace ..... of its own?

Sure, when we stop and think about it — or when we find ourselves fooled by a perceptual illusion — we realise with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world (DIRECT),

even if we are aware that our activity can be easily ......... pursued , followed, chased, tracked.

It maximises evolutionary ..... (FIT) by driving truth to .....(EXTINCT)

Some say that there is a way to harness our online activity for the ...... advancement, upgrading, betterment, elevation..... of humanity, like spotting potential health threats.

that if we assume that the particles that make up ordinary objects have an objective, observer-independent........ (EXIST), we get the wrong answers.

But is there also a downside to ‘big data’ (the new term among information technology ..... territories, terrains, circles, fields ...... for the vast quantities of information now stored online) being opened up to researchers?

however for most of us the bigger issue is ....security, insurance, defense, protection........from corporate and state snooping..

Confusingly, ..... however, nonetheless, despite, but, ...... the FBI has a new mega-database with exactly the same name – Sentinel – to track suspected criminals and terrorists.

The cognitive .....(SCIENCE) Donald Hoffman uses evolutionary game theory to show that ........

In an article written for the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, the team announced that it had ...... opened, uncovered, revealed, exposed ..... an unexpected medical finding

Nobody is thrilled about social media applications like Facebook doing the same..........yet, although, however, but......... many of us indulge anyway

We tend to assume that our perceptions — sights, sounds, textures and tastes — are an accurate .....(PORTRAY) of the real world.

that view can no longer be.......(HOLD)

Last week, scientists at Columbia and Stanford published their analysis of 82 million online searches, .....that, which, who, whom......were provided to them by Microsoft

His conclusion is a .....(DRAMA) one – the world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality.

This is the ..... (APT) named ‘hard problem’

whether we are conscious humans or inanimate .....(MEASURE) devices.

And that’s where you can find Hoffman — straddling the boundaries, attempting a .....(MATHEMATICS) model of the observer,

the combination of two drugs – paroxetine, an antidepressant, and pravastatin, a cholesterol-lowering drug – caused ..... high, extreme, elevated, great .....blood sugar.

On one side, you’ll find .....(RESEARCH) scratching their chins raw trying to understand how a.......

Getting at questions about the nature of reality and .....(ENTANGLE) the observer from the observed is an endeavor that straddles the boundaries of neuroscience and fundamental physics.

There are benign uses of data mining, .....but, however, although , nevertheless ...... for most of us the bigger issue is ........

Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a .....(REASONABLE) decent one.