Look closely at the picture. It’s taken in Matema in east Africa. Do you see the black fuzzy haze just above the horizon?
Here’s another one:
And another:
That’s not smoke. Those are flies.
These lake flies depend on water… Read More
In my new book, I have a section on entomophagy, which is a big word that means eating insects. And entomophagy is a prominent part of my book trailer, if you haven’t had the joy (or stomach) to watch that… Read More
Last week I ate a bug on purpose.
It was a dry-roasted cricket.
One of the central tenets of my Bugged book is that we should all eat more insects, as they’re a good source of protein and leave less… Read More
I recently watched a Simpson’s episode where Lisa develops an iron deficiency as a result of her vegetarianism, and she can’t stomach the iron pills the doctor prescribed. (They clang when she spits them out onto the table.) So she… Read More
When King Henry II of France was pierced through the eye and brain in a jousting tournament in 1559, his doctors experimented ways to treat the injury by using the decapitated heads of recently executed criminals. The wound, however, proved fatal.