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Amazing Buddha Sculpture Made from Dead Bugs

Inhabitat has quite an eye for fascinating and beautiful green design, and this find has a bit of the bizarre in it as well: a Buddha statue that appears to be made from jewels, but is actually comprised of 20,000 dead bugs.
The statue, located in a community hall in the Gumma prefecture of Japan, took [...]

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Bugs: The Next Sustainable Food Source?

In North America and most of Western Europe, eating bugs isn’t exactly commonplace – at least, eating bugs on purpose (we ingest plenty without realizing it on a daily basis due to lax food processing standards). But in many parts of the world, entomophagy is normal and insects are considered an excellent source of protein, [...]

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UC Berkeley Controls Live Beetle by Remote Control

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have succeeded in controlling a live rhinoceros beetle by radio, controlling the movement of its wings and some other parts using signals sent to six electrodes on the beetle’s brain and muscles. The beetle was equipped “with a module incorporating a circuit to send signals to the electrodes, [...]

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