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Down among the bugs

By Anil Ananthaswamy

10 March 2001

LOOK to your right and a giant red ant scares the wits out of you. Look to
your left and grotesque car-sized bugs block your path. It sounds like a scene
from Honey I Shrunk the Kids, but it’s just a day in the life of Tom
Malzbender’s creepy new invention which lets you roam around an environment
stuffed with gigantic living insects.

As a child, Malzbender spent hours hunched over a microscope studying and
classifying tiny creatures, such as protozoa and insects. “I was always
enthralled by the diversity and the strangeness of that world,” says Malzbender,
who is…

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