Ever wonder why the color purple has long been known as the color reserved for royalty?
I’ve blogged before–actually a few times–about what a dismal job it was to be a textile dyer, over the course of centuries. Before the… Read More
The writer Vladimir Nabokov was also a lepidopterist (butterfly expert). For six years, he was the curator of the butterfly wing at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Over twenty butterflies have been named in his honor, including “Lolita” and “Humbert.”