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Kickstarter: Made it!!

October 17, 2012 by Brooke Borel

My Kickstarter ended yesterday: Funded!  I’m excited and relieved at the outcome and look forward to my next research trips. Yesterday, I booked my flight and hotel for the Entomological Society of America’s annual meeting, which will include a host of papers and symposia on bed bugs. That trip, and the others I have lined up for this year and next, would not have been possible without the Kickstarter funding. This was my first Kickstarter. It’s been interesting watching the […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: bed bug, bed bugs, bedbug, bedbugs, crowd funding, crowd sourcing, data, kickstarter, science, writing

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Bed Bug Book Kickstarter: One week left!

October 9, 2012 by Brooke Borel

Just one week left on my Kickstarter project. My goal is to raise $5,000 to help fund travel for my book. With the money, I’ll visit research labs where they study bed bugs, people’s homes where they have bed bugs and I’ll also trace the footsteps (or some of them) of an entomologist who crisscrossed the world in the 1950s and 1960s to find bed bugs and related species to study. I’m over 80% there.  Click the bed bug to […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: bed bug, bed bugs, bedbug, bedbugs, books, crowd funding, crowd sourcing, history, journalism, kickstarter, narrative, science, writing

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