Co-operation and cohesion
Unexpected Elements
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The History of Glue
In the 16th and 17th centuries they finally started to put together these fine-tuned wood instruments. In the 18th and 1900s latex rubber for the first time in history we had a synthetic adhesive that essentially was reproducible. Today scientists like me are trying to make these active adhesives where all we have to do is put a slight signal on them. They suddenly react very quickly things like light, voltage, magnetic fields. And then there are so many animals that have what's called these dynamic adhesives. Getcos that are running up walls across ceilings, sea miles they can stick in anything in the ocean right and they can stick there forever. High-speed sticky
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