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Make A List - Healthy Snack Choices
Which foods do you snack on between meals? Which ones do you feel good
about? Which ones could be replaced by better choices?
Make a list of healthy snacks. What makes these foods more healthy?
Smart Snacking
Read another issue of Table Topics
What are ambiguities?
Science And Nature -
Biomimetics
Did you know that the idea for velcro came
from the pesky burrs that stick to your socks.
One curious person looked closely at those burs
and discovered a tiny hook that attaches itself to
the fibers of your socks and hangs on.
Velcro has those same hooks that make it hang on
tight.
A super-sticky tape has been developed that
mimics the electromagnetic way that a gecko can
climb a slick glass wall. What uses could
you make of a tape that would cling tightly to any
surface?
Share any other knowledge you have of
biomimetics.
Biomimetics: Borrowing from Biology - Geckos Feet
and Self-Cleaning Glass - The Naked Scientists
2007.07.14
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