http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/19/screws-lose-a-worms-underwater-glue-could-help-repair-bones/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:44:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/19/screws-lose-a-worms-underwater-glue-could-help-repair-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-43124 Chris the Pragmatist Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:21:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/19/screws-lose-a-worms-underwater-glue-could-help-repair-bones/#comment-43124 Expect to see a lot more advances in medicine, aeronautics, space travel, and environmentally friendly energy sources by studying the sea. This makes a lot of sense really and I'm actually surprised it took so long to put 1+1 together. I don't think, we as humans, look to nature often enough to find solutions to some of our ever present problems. We get so caught up in our own capacity to invent that we tend to overlook the fact that a lot of what we are looking for is around us already. Expect to see a lot more advances in medicine, aeronautics, space travel, and environmentally friendly energy sources by studying the sea. This makes a lot of sense really and I’m actually surprised it took so long to put 1+1 together. I don’t think, we as humans, look to nature often enough to find solutions to some of our ever present problems. We get so caught up in our own capacity to invent that we tend to overlook the fact that a lot of what we are looking for is around us already.

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