Futurecars and artificial spider-silk bulletproof jerkins in one day. Excellent.

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Spider scientists spin tough yarn

Also – perhaps possible to source a new business cliche from this report.

Along with the phrase “that meeting/project/event was like herding cats” we can now maybe add to the cliche-canon “that meeting/project/event was like farming spiders”

“People said ‘Why don’t we farm them [spiders] like we do with gregarious vegetarian silkworms?’,” said Dr Turner. “But spiders are territorial carnivores. They just aren’t suited to farming.”

“Put 10,000 of them in a room and a week later you’d have one mean-looking one left.”