Sara Lewis (who gave a 24/7 Lecture about firefly sex, at the recent Ig Nobel Prize ceremony) has a new book out. The book is called Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies. The Washington Post has one of the first reviews of the book: …Lewis, who has spent years and traveled the word studying fireflies, […]
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How Fireflies Get It On
Sara Lewis reduced her discoveries about firefly sex to 24 seconds, and then to seven words. She performed this, as a 24/7 Lecture, at the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony: A year before that, Lewis performed a longer version — about thirteen minutes long — as a TED talk:
When firefly meets superconducting magnet
What happens when a firefly meets a superconducting magnet? That depends, of course, on the details. Here’s one documented, flashy course of events: “Firefly Flashing Under Strong Static Magnetic Field,” Anurup Gohain Barua [pictured here, possibly reacting to the experiment], Masakazu Iwasaka, Yuito Miyashita, Satoru Kurita and Norio Owada, Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, epub December […]