Explore "rubber" with insightful episodes like "SYSK Selects: How Silly Putty Works" and "Elastics: Where God and Science Smooch" from podcasts like ""Stuff You Should Know" and "Stuff You Should Know"" and more!
In this week's SYSK Select episode, when the Japanese invaded Southeast Asia in World War II, they cut off America's rubber supply. Luckily, American can-do created a synthetic rubber and saved the War. Learn about the inventor, fluid chemistry and more in this episode of SYSK.
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You could be forgiven for thinking the story behind elastics was boring. You’d still be wrong, though. The story of what’s holding up your underwear is a global drama, replete with war, industrial espionage, colonialism, destitute inventors – everything!
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