Word: geckos
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Researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a new medical adhesive inspired by the sticky footpads of gecko lizards that could potentially replace the glues, sutures, and staples...
...There is a great need for biomedical adhesives that are tape-based,” said Jeffrey M. Karp, a Harvard Medical School affiliate and one of the head researchers on the gecko project...
...more diverse approach to getting our message out," Kelly says. She needed an expert - and hired an 18-year-old. "He had a MySpace site done for me within an hour. He knows how to upload videos and get his friends onto the site. We call him our techno-gecko...
...been intimate in a year--in part, simply because of the exhaustion of everyday chores and staying close to the kids emotionally and physically. (Katie, we learn, breastfed them until they were 2 1/2.) "I guess, yeah, I should be in the mood every time I clean out the gecko cage!" Dave yells, ranting sarcastically about the erotic stimulation of bedtime stories and minivan shopping. "Our entire life," Katie tells him, "that's what you just trashed...
...other thing Blades has in common with Ferrell's other comedies is... it's OK. Nobody in charge here - not directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck (their first feature, after doing the gecko Geico ads), not the quintet of credited writers (Jeff and Craig Cox, Busy Philipps, John Altschuler and David Krinsky), certainly not Ferrell - is even remotely trying to make a great film. It has the slapdash air of a movie that was a little more fun to shoot than to watch. To say that Blades is a little sharper than Kicking and Screaming, but not nearly so smart...