You can bounce it, you can stretch it, heck... some people even chew it! That's right, it's rubber! And at long last, the Tangents team is finally talking about it! You all really wanted an episode about rubber, right? Well, we made it anyway, so you have to listen.

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[Definition]

Mesoamerican rubber recipe

https://news.mit.edu/2010/mayaball-0524

[Trivia Question]

Koosh ball filaments

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/7...

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Mimicking birdsong with a rubber tube

https://softmath.seas.harvard.edu/pub...

https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2011/01...

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-envi...

Mayan dental care & harvesting chicle as gum

https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?...

https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewconte...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

https://bda.org/museum/collections/te...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

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