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Texas Tech develops mat that could absorb oil spills

Aug 5, 2014

San Antonio Express-News 'With the 2010 crude oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which resulted in the major spill of about 4.9 million barrels of oil, it became apparent that we needed new clean-up technologies that did not add stress to the environment,' Ramkumar told Texas Tech Today. 'This incident triggered our interest in developing environmentally sustainable materials for environmental remediation.'

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Move over metrosexual, spornosexual is here

Jul 31, 2014

Torontosun.com - Rob Weiner, pop culture expert at Texas Tech University, says he is not at all surprised by this development. “Our society has become increasingly obsessed with our bodies. We want everything to be so perfect and the truth is that it’s all a dream. Men’s bodies are not perfect, but it’s like there is this weird reversal of roles that women were often obsessed with. So now men are so concerned with buying shoes and having perfect pristine bodies. These trends come and go, you know.”

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