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Learning from nature

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Dr Jonathan Wood, 2006 Famelab winner, explores the engineering lessons that we can learn from biology. Making use of demos (including spilling red wine, blow-up sharks and metal wires with long memories) and really bad puns. Jonathan will tell us how we can copy nature to come up with new materials and technologies for our own use.

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Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room tbc) Block 14, Ida Darwin Hospital, Fulbourn Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 11:00 am)

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