In the ubiquitous toy Barrel of Monkeys, which features a plastic barrel containing a bunch of plastic monkeys, any single pair of the monkeys can be joined together in over 80 different combinations. As a result, biochemists for nearly fifty years have used the monkeys to help them visualize how the molecules in complex proteins and viruses could be constructed and linked together.
One of the original creators of the Barrel of Monkeys, Leonard Marks, was inspired to make the toy when he was standing around in a store aimlessly playing with replacement links for snow chains for tires.
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