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Edited by Glenn
Yeffeth
ISBN 1933771062
Benbella Books (March 1,
2007)
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For this book, I contributed an essay
entitled "The Tangled Web We Weave." The general thrust of the essay
concerns the way that the move away from man-made web shooters to
organic shooters is part of the general denigration of the role of
science in contemporary American culture. A highlight of the essay for
me was that I was able to include a quote from
Dr.
Paula T. Hammond of MIT’s Institute
for Soldier Nanotechnologies, whose team are the world's top
researchers in the area of synthesized spider silk. Coincidentally, Dr.
Hammond shares a last name with Nicholas Hammond, who portrayed the
webslinger on the 1977 television show, The Amazing Spider-Man. |
