Tag: Matan Shelomi

Screenshot from Edible Insects online course. At top left, professor Matan Shelomi, Ph.D., holds a dish with cooked insects in one hand and one of the insects in his other hand. At top right is a digital illustration of two tacos with cooked insects. At bottom right is a closeup of a dish with cooked insects over greens with red peppers. At bottom left is green handwriting-style text that reads "Welcome to Edible Insects."

Curious About Edible Insects? There’s a Free Online Course for That

The first-ever massive open online course (MOOC) on edible insects was launched in March, based on one entomologist’s popular university course. Learn more about the development of the “Edible Insects” MOOC and what it offers to online learners around the world.

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Vitamin B1 is Not a Mosquito Repellent. So Why Do Doctors Prescribe It?

Some faulty science in the 1940s gave rise to the myth that consuming a vitamin could deter mosquito bites. A new review compiles the decades of scientific studies disproving the idea and explores why it still persists.

Interview with the Phasmid Symposium Organizer at Entomology 2013

Matan Shelomi is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California-Davis, and he also received the John Henry Comstock Award at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of […]