Golden spider silk! at the American Museum of Natural History, via build/make/craft/bake (photos via AMNH)
Since raising spiders has proven difficult, researchers are investigating ways to replicate spider silk to avoid harvesting. However, spider silk is difficult to mimic in a lab because the silk begins as a liquid in the spider’s gland, becoming a remarkably strong, water-resistant solid after following a complicated course through the spider’s interior.
Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style is a gossip blog for my (our? yes!) kind of people. I guess we can share Mark Ruffalo or whatever, lady, since I like you.
Gregory Peck is a wonderful flirt in Roman Holiday. He wears pants with a waist that’s about at his nipples; his suit seems to be adorable brown tweed; he’s a newspaper man and he and I could both work on deadline. There’s a bit of rascal in him, something indelible I love. But then he grows up to be such a DAD and lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird (I REALIZE HE’S A GOOD DAD) but you guys, I’m just not in the market for dad boyfriends right now.