We were now all moving away from rubber and plastic straps and into full-on stainless-steel wristbands to match the TAG Heuer casings.

WSJ: The March of Time

Rather than using rubber hoses to connect the stationary and moving parts of the building, 3sixty's ingenious plumbing system employs horizontal ring-shaped pipes made of steel.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

In the name of climate change science, researchers at NASA have dropped 90 rubber ducks into holes of Greenland's fastest moving glacier: the Jakobshavn Glacier in Baffin Bay.

CNN: Rubber ducks aid NASA study

Now grab a rubber spatula and fold the egg whites in to cream mixture (Folding means moving the bottom of the mixture over the top with little agitation to the stuff in the bowl, which will deflate the egg whites).

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