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LESSON 2 · Nature-Inspired Innovation

PAUSE TO THINK

What hobby led an engineer to fix the bullet train?

Birdwatching.

Eiji Nakatsu was an avid **birdwatcher**. Watching kingfishers knife into water without a splash gave him the nose shape that silenced the Shinkansen's tunnel boom — a weekend pastime that solved a national engineering headache.

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