Holiday Shopping Tips
Now that I finished recording 3 conference presentations and 4 lectures, and completed 2 grant applications, I can put a little more time...
"Failure" is Okay
We can all agree, times are a bit crazier in the world today. We are all (mostly) on lock-down, surviving and helping others through the...
New Decade - New Adventures
What a decade... Like many people, my life has been significantly changed over the past 10 years, with both success and failure, gain and...
Creativity with Spiders - Silk Part II
What is the strongest material on Earth? Did you think of a metal such as steel? Would it surprise you that the pound-for-pound strongest...
Creativity with Spiders - Silk Part I
Spiders are found all over the world (to my delight and to the dismay of others). Their sizes range from the Samoan moss spider (Patu...
Creativity with Spiders - Instruments
Music has been a part of human culture for centuries, created to inspire and empower, to tell and share stories of life lessons and...
Creativity with Insects - Silk
Let's go back to ancient China for a moment. Legend has it that in 2,640 B.C., the Chinese empress Si-Ling-Chi pulled on one end of a...
Creativity with Insects - Jewelry Part II
If you love to wear actual pieces of an insect as jewelry, you might also be interested in obtaining some that were made by an insect....
Creativity with Insects - Jewelry Part I
Besides being used for textiles and elaborate murals (see previous Creative with Insects - Elytra Part I post), beetle elytra are also...
Creativity with Insects - Elytra Part II
You've seen a brilliant green beetles (Sternocera acquisignata, find the blog post here), but there is much more diversity in color and...
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