Science at home

Suddenly I saw them everywhere: news articles, tweets, and even art exhibits about eating insects. I also noticed that the American North East was getting excited about the emergence of …

It was my turn to bring cake for cake club at work. Your turn only comes around once a year or so, so I thought I’d make something interesting. Inspired …

It’s ten years since SARS, and last week I shared some SARS memories on stage at Litmus Test, as part of their “Health & Safety” theme. Here is the story …

I know, I know. It’s nice that I brought back Etsy Wednesday – and today I found some fun soap flasks – but am I ever going to blog anything …

It’s something I rarely talk about, but this year is my 10th anniversary of being vegetarian. I don’t know exactly when, because it was a very gradual process. I started …

(This post was previously hosted on my old blog (now offline) and is published in print in The Best Science Writing Online 2012) “Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings …