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What did Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral invent on the close inspection of cockleburs?
What is Velcro?
Galaxies, hurricanes, tornadoes, rising smoke, seashells, flowers, and water whirlpools are all examples of what type of shape found in nature?
What is a spiral?
Which CDA staff member was offered 10 camels for her hand in marriage?
Who is Mrs. Zylstra?
What art for resembles the folding of a beech leaf?
What is origami?
What percentage of modern drugs originally came from plants or plant derivatives?
What is fully 60 percent?
What was the first barbed wire business called?
What was the Thorn Wire Hedge Company?
This Germany company created this item that repels water, dust, and grim, just like the lotus leaf surface.
What is a self cleaning spray?
Which CDA staff member broke her back in a rodeo in 8th grade?
Who is Mrs. McClelland?
What inspired the creation of smart clothing?
What are pine cones?
Scientists have used this plant by harvesting light sensitive proteins, placing it on a glass with silver electrode wires, and when light shines on the surface the plant's proteins generate a weak electrical current.
What is spinach?
This explorer noticed native playing with a flexible ball in Haiti during one of his several sailing voyages to North America.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Practical uses for this thing are as a key component of fans, pumps, turbines, propellers, and small ultra-efficient cooling fans?
What are PAX impeller blades?
Which CDA staff member is married to a descendant of both President William Henry Harrison and a famous Confederate general?
Who is Mrs. Lee?
What potential heating and cooling application is based off of skunk cabbage?
What is a thermostat?
What is the behavior called where plants generate chemical defenses against competing plants?
What is allelopathy?
Paxton based his patter of support for the Crystal Palace based off of the veins on the underside of this lily.
What is the Victoria Amazonia?
Tiny metal particles, the size of the finest dust, can break down positions without producing harmful, which is a nano-scale technology that offers a solution to this problem.
What is a water-borne pathogen problem?
This CDA staff member finished in the top ten in a state spelling contest when they were 14 years old.
Who is Mr. Davidson?
What thing is useful for offering precise time standards?
What is a pulsar?
A change or wrinkle of the polymer surface could result from chemicals indicating food spoilage comes from the mimicking of what plant?
The name of the man that "buckyballs" were named after was...
(And the "R." stands for Richard. Who knew?)
These things control the flow of fluids by either expanding or contracting withing capillary tubes of the bean plant.
What are forisomes?
This CDA staff member didn't learn to swim until they were in college.
Who is Mrs. Palmer?
These laboratory created synthetic ________ are being used for lasers, fiber optics, holography, waveguides, and lithography.
What are opals?
Copying this plant's mechanism can give motion to micro-machines, to convert solar energy into energy of motion to be turned into electricity.
What are wheat fibers?