Woman Solves Riddle of How to Interest Children in Murder Victims

The way to get kids hooked on forensic entomology — the study of bugs’ chomping their way through corpses — is via their interest in finger-painting, discovers forensic entomologist Erin Watson, who skirts the issue of “talking about murder with elementary school children” by coating maggots in non-toxic paint, letting them crawl around a piece of paper, showing the whole thing to kids, and then sitting back and waiting for the dark, wriggling passion to hatch in their hearts and brains. [Via]