Swirling Shapes

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/thescienceshow

You can listen or read transcript online.  Biomimicry.

Saturday 12 April 2014 12:39PM

Jay Harman has always been fascinated with the efficiency he sees in nature. Human creations come with problematic side effects.  In nature there is no waste. Everything is used. In his book The Shark’s Paintbrush, Jay Harman describes designs in nature being copied in the human world, from the shape of wings and the way water flows down a plughole, to the marvels of individual molecules which can afford so many advantages in our manufactured wo
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IMAGE: THE LILY IMPELLER

IMAGE: HOW THE LILY IMPELLER WORKS IN A LARGE TANK OF





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