| Spinning Spider Silk into Gold - Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:43:52 +0000 |
What do you do if you are textile artists in Madagascar and want to promote traditional Malagasy weaving techniques? You make a scarf and a golden cape spun from spider silk. Using half a million dollars of your own money. The story has been making the rounds lately, but these videos about its creation were so [...] |
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| I Am Science (#IamScience) - Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:03:36 +0000 |
One of the many cool things that came out of ScienceOnline2012 was a meme-thingy called “IamScience”. From Mindy, who created the video below: “On January 27, 2012, science writer and marine biologist Kevin Zelnio started the Twitter hashtag #IamScience, encouraging scientists to share their individual stories about their traditional or unconventional paths that brought them [...] |
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| A Ribald Tale of Love and Lice - Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:14:47 +0000 |
You may have heard that I told a slightly rude story at the ScienceOnline2012 conference. If you missed it, here you go! Listen to the (Slightly NSFW) Story via The Monti Everything I said is true; there are even photos. (Think carefully before you click this link. You’ve been warned.) There are still pubic lice [...] |
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