Models?

A lot of things get adapted these days. The old designs are given a new twist and recycled. This one down here takes inspiration from the famous - DNA structure.
I had read the actual book by Watson. In reading that book I realized the painstaking thought process that had gone into this discovery. I mean it is one thing reading about the fact that this model was proposed by Watson and Crick. But another, actually stating the kind of effort, hypothesis generation and failures of other models proposed before this one that actually amazed me. It was a real eye opener though I have myself been a student in the line of science have indulged in this activity for some time. The importance of what actually went into the whole structure determination for this wonderful molecule, actually alludes the many students of science. Its importance and challenges are not clearly presented to the student and hence he cannot comprehend the kind of challenge this molecule actually posed to the scientist. We in todays world take it for granted. A child in 8th grade probably can easily imitate this structure and draw it without realizing any of the actual thought process that had gone into proposing this structure.
This Molecule inspired design in this shoe actually bought that to my notice.