The Science and Humor of Innovative Adhesives

This chapter explores a newly developed UV-sensitive glue that allows users to temporarily bond and detach materials, highlighting its unique properties and potential applications. It also delves into the historical use of animal-based adhesives and whimsical concepts like 'blood plastic' while maintaining a light-hearted tone. Alongside amusing anecdotes and listener questions, the chapter effectively blends science and humor, making complex topics accessible.

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Humanity is bound together by so many qualities, and in this episode, we add Being Goopy to the list. What does that have to do with glue? A whole lot, it turns out - cue some ominous foreshadowing....Memento goopy!

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[Secret Ingredient]

Fibers mixed with water to make adhesive

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/1/pgac026/6549457

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945194

Adhesive inspired by animal protein

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945194

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.1c10936

Chinese bricks made with gluey substance

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chinese-architecture

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eem2.12143