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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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August 10, 2009, 9:00 am PDT

Etsy recently gave us a look inside the Nature Lab at Rhode Island School of Design, a collection of natural specimens originally established for nature drawing. I remember visiting the Nature Lab on my visit to RISD as a prospective student, and it just blew me away. They even have taxidermy mashups of animals that don’t really exist.