Last summer, my excellent friend and webmaster Keri Marion told me about something going on in downtown Providence: people were making short films of “aha moments,” and maybe I should really try to get myself down there. I did, and the good people there — sponsored by Mutual of Omaha, which I have fond memories of via their ‘Wild Kingdom’ TV series with Marlin Perkins — shot the following, which I saw for the first time today. Dave\’s aha moment
The current issue of The New Yorker features a great article by Dana Goodyear, entitled “Grub.” Ms. Goodyear attended our symposium at the annual ESA Conference in San Diego last December, and then joined some of us for a high-profile insect-chef cook-off last May at the 25th Annual Bug Fair sponsored by and held at The Los Angeles Museum of Natural History. Here’s her article: grub
It’s already generated a good deal of attention; I did a radio interview on Friday, which I’ll post in the next few days. I was actually articulate. In the bigger picture, there has been a huge increase in the amount of press coverage for this subject. At some point I’ll include a run-down of all that.