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Magic Materials

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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How to Teach an Underpass to Love

Almost all of our effort as a society is keeping the existing infrastructure going. I don't think people want buildings at last forever, do they? People tend to prepare. It might mean that eventually the building or dual carriageway becomes sentient and refuses to be knocked down. How can you teach an underpass to love? A phone call from Gary Newman, he'd like to buy the rights. We talked about the serendipitous design of materials but a modern material scientist. Could you speak a bit about what that entails now?

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