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Magic Materials

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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What Is a Material?

Ed Byrne is a professor of material and an outdoorsman. He says Gore-Tex was invented in the 60s to make Teflon go further. It created air holes that were big enough to let water vapor out. That revolutionised the outdoor clothing market. And he wears nothing else.

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