Last Thursday I gave a talk at the Silklab at Tufts University. The reason for the Lab’s existence is that silk is a remarkable substance with remarkable properties and remarkable potential that is only beginning to be explored. They are doing wacky stuff with silk at the SilkLab, everything from making biodegradable coffee cups to artificial bone to implantable devices for delivering drugs.
Here’s a link to the Silklab page: http://ase.tufts.edu/biomedical/unolab/home.html <http://ase.tufts.edu/biomedical/unolab/home.html> And here’s a TED talk by the Silklab’s founder and director, Fiorenzo Omenetto, on “Silk, the ancient material of the future”: http://www.ted.com/talks/fiorenzo_omenetto_silk_the_ancient_material_of_the_future?language=en <http://www.ted.com/talks/fiorenzo_omenetto_silk_the_ancient_material_of_the_future?language=en> Here’s a TEDx talk on what it is to be a “Fab Labs and Global Learning" by Jean-Michel Molenaar, who until recently ran a maker lab in Grenoble, France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCH6F87Rbps Perhaps the list would like to extend an invitation to a few people of the Silklab? I think, for example, that profs Omenetto and Molenaar would be worth additions. Regards, jrs P.S. The lab has decided to create a small seminar series (which they’re calling “Cocoon”) to encourage discussion about “What’s Next?” Because a few people at the lab are fans of my novels, I was the first invited speaker. I attach the flyer below.
