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Tag: glue

Press Release of the Week: Gorilla Glue Hair Experts

February 13, 2021 Marc Abrahams

Of the approximately 330 million people in the United States of America, only one is known to have personally applied Gorilla Glue as a hair-styling substance. After that person shared her innovation in a TikTok video which became very, very popular, one university showed public-spirited quick thinking. Rutgers University issued a press release that immediately […]

Arts and Scienceglue, gorilla, hair

Ungluing Superglued™ eyelids – the options [study]

June 8, 2020 Martin Gardiner

Gluing-on false eyelashes with cyanoacrylate (CA) adhesive – like say, Superglue™ – is widely regarded as a very bad idea. However, in the case that that one’s eyelids do get superglued™ together, and one presents oneself at a hospital casualty department, what can medics do to remove the glue? In 2008, a US-based research team investigated […]

Research Newseyelash, eyelid, eyes, glue, superglue

Blu-Tack® for researchers

July 6, 2017 Martin Gardiner

Blu-Tack®, say its manufacturers, is designed to hang posters, hold many ordinary household objects in place and temporarily stop leaks around the house. Since its launch c. 1969 researchers across the globe have found a plethora of alternative and imaginative applications for the substance, many of which have been carefully documented in the academic literature […]

Arts and Scienceadhesive, art, blu-tack, blue, blutak, glue, sticky

The egg cracked; they super-glued it; a bird hatched

November 1, 2015 Marc Abrahams

The story of the cracked egg and the glue, as reported by the Indian Express on November 2, 2015: Cracked Egg Glued, and a Baby Rhea is Born! THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An egg cracks, gets fixed with a super glue and voila, it hatches. Sounds like the script of a super glue commercial? Well, it happened for […]

Arts and Science, Ig Nobelegg, glue, rhea, unboil

Boob Glue® (New Patent)

November 21, 2014 Martin Gardiner

Californian inventor Dawn Jackson™  has just received (November 18, 2014,) a US patent for her ‘Breast shaping adhesive and methods for shaping breasts ‘ concept. The glue, which is made from “denatured alcohol and water and where the polymer is selected from the group consisting of: a methacrylate copolymer; a polyquaternium cationic polymer, a poly(acrylic […]

Arts and Scienceboob, bra, breast, glue, invention, inventor

Varnish | Glue | Food – you choose

November 12, 2014 Martin Gardiner

• Casein is a traditional fine-art varnish with a durable velvety matte finish. • It’s also a very strong water-resistant wood glue (and it’s heat-resistant  too.) • Or, if you prefer, you can eat it (available in various flavours, chocolate, vanilla, banana & etc)  

Arts and ScienceFood, glue, milk, paint, varnish

Old books up your nose [2]

June 30, 2014 Martin Gardiner

Are E-book enthusiasts missing out on the olfactory aspects of reading a good-smelling book? The technical aspects of volatile degradation products emitted by books has been examined before, see: Improbable Research, Old books up your nose [1], but a later paper in the Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management (Vol 7, 2011) goes on to examine […]

Arts and Science, Research NewsBooks, glue, must, nose, olfactory, paper, smell
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