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user-inactivated  ·  1842 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Porcupine Barbs For Better Wound Healing

I once watched a really interesting documentary on bioengineering that talked about how engineers were turning to nature for inspiration on how to design everything from trains to hvac systems. One of the people being interviewed said something to the effect of "We'd be smart to study how nature solves various problems. Evolution is basically millions of years of research and development."





irrelevantseal  ·  1820 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you happen to know what the doc was called? sounds interesting...

user-inactivated  ·  1820 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wanna say it was an episode of Nova, but I'm not positive. Here's a short video by Vox that covers some similar ground. I think it might even be where I got the provided quote from.