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Bob the Drag Queen Discusses Building Purse First Studios and Drag's Business Boom

In a Fast Company interview moderated by Kc Ifeanyi, entertainer Bob the Drag Queen discussed how drag has grown from a niche art form into a mainstream cultural and commercial force. He detailed his approach to running his production company, Purse First Studios, and how he has turned his personal brand into a sustainable business.

Bob the Drag Queen credits improvisation, not perfectionism, for business success

Speaking at the Fast Company Innovation Festival, RuPaul's Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen described how comfort with improvisation and imperfection has shaped her approach to entrepreneurship. She shared a lesson tied to 'Top Gun: Maverick,' a film she admitted she has never seen, to illustrate how confidence can outweigh flawless preparation.

UQ and UNSW researchers turn cockroaches into first-aid robots

Scientists from the University of Queensland and University of New South Wales fitted giant burrowing cockroaches with electrodes, cameras and automatic injection devices to create cyborg insects called Paraborgs. The bugs can crawl through rubble to locate disaster victims and even administer medication, according to a study published in Advanced Science.

Developer unveils 'Bespoke', a satirical politeness-enforcing programming language

A programmer has released Bespoke, a tongue-in-cheek statically typed language that requires every command to begin with a polite greeting and end with an acknowledgement, using the .charming file extension. Dubbed 'The Queen's Code,' it treats the compiler, output console, host environment and shared objects as parties deserving formal correspondence rather than blunt instructions. The project pokes fun at the terse, imperative tone of conventional programming syntax, and its creator notes the implementation is far less developed than its etiquette rules.

Researchers Fit Cyborg Cockroaches With Syringes for Disaster Rescue

Biorobotics researchers at the University of Queensland and biomedical engineers at UNSW have created 'paraborgs'—giant burrowing cockroaches equipped with cameras and miniature auto-injection systems. In tests, the insects hit targets with injections 95% of the time when within 15cm, and completed the full navigate-and-inject sequence successfully in 72% of trials.

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