Finding ingenious design in nature


	Finding ingenious design in nature

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2-22-2008 12:09 PM

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<SPAN class="photocredit">Staff photo Matt Craig/Harvard News Office</SPAN>
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“This,” Joanna Aizenberg says slyly, picking up a latticed tube from her desk in Pierce Hall, “is a glass house you can throw stones at.” 
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The tube, tapered to a close at one end and festooned with a cluster of curious white fibers at the tip, resembles an upturned dog’s tail. It is, in fact, the skeleton of a deep-sea sponge, she reveals, made entirely out of a natural glass. The tube acts as a kind of high-rise apartment building for shrimp that live symbiotically in the sponge’s tissue.  
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