Yummy Larvae Sweet Enough To Eat

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• Yummy Larvae Sweet Enough To Eat
• Make the World a More Peaceful Place: Play the Ukulele
• Mosquitoes Annihilated By Death Ray Laser

Yummy Larvae Sweet Enough To Eat Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:00 PM PST Sweet little bug cakes by Japan's Komatsuya Honten bakery make an interesting belated Valentine's Day treat. Interesting tidbit of Valentine's Day trivia: in Japan, women give chocolate to men for Valentine's Day, not the other way around. Via CNN, "A Japanese company has added a new twist to Valentine's Day: giving the gift of insects. In 2005, Komatsuya Honten, a bakery and confectionery shop located in Akita Prefecture, debuted a series of cakes and candies modeled on the larval and adult forms of kabuto-mushi -- the massive rhinoceros beetles native to the Japanese archipelago. 'There ...more > Continue Reading > Related: How to make a fondant pig How to make daisies with royal icing for cake decorations How to shape a bra and panty set out of gumpaste How to cover a cake with rolled fondant How to make marzipan candy & cake decorating

Make the World a More Peaceful Place: Play the Ukulele Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST Another TED speaker featured today: Ukulele guru Jake Shimabukuro shares his thoughts and incredible skill in the videos below. Interview at TED with Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder. Most Viewed YouTube Performance: Shimabukuro Covers "My Guitar Gently Weeps". Jake Shimabukuro: "Let's Dance". Interview at TED with Mashable, Part 1. Interview at TED with Mashable, Part 2. Via CNN, "Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro says his traditional, Hawaiian instrument, which he learned to play at age 4, can make the world a less violent place. 'I've always believed it's the instrument of peace,' he ...more > Continue Reading > Related: How to play the C Major scale on the ukulele How to use the best ukulele strum in the world How to use ukulele theory 101 lessons How to play Hawaiian-style ukulele How to buy a ukulele

Mosquitoes Annihilated By Death Ray Laser Posted: 17 Feb 2010 07:30 AM PST Laser gun + killing mosquitoes = lots of little boy fun, but what's it all about? Quite possibly the most entertaining, thrilling, and well, downright life-saving presentation at this year's TED conference was Intellectual Ventures' mosquito death ray. The mosquito death ray is part of a plan to totally eradicate malaria, a "disease that still afflicts some 250 million people every year and claims the lives of about one million, mostly children". That's right, apparently every 43 seconds a child dies of malaria in Africa. What's the solution? A project led by Dr. Philip Eckhoff and funded ...more > Continue Reading > Related: How To Get Rid of Mosquitoes How to defend against deadly mosquitoes How to get rid of mosquitos How to fend off mosquitos How to avoid mosquito bites

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