New post at Skepchick: Porn and Libraries

Yes, after a long hiatus, I posted something over at Skepchick!
Seems a lady discovered there was PORN (i.e, romance novels) in her public library! And they let her teenager check one out! And the world is ending!

Bees and silk

Several other insects besides silkworms make silk, but not much has been known about the structure of those compounds. Bee and ant larvae produce silk and, although the silks in all these species are produced by the same glands, they use them quite differently. New research finds these silks are quite different than spider [...]