No, it's not a Jared Diamond book, it's the story of a guy who takes pictures of flying insects with a home-made laser-activated, multi-flash, external-shuttered, computer-controled flash setup for his Nikon D100.
After ten pages describing all the work he went through to build his device, there are eight pages of images - some of the are spectacular.
Wow, that was fascinating! So when are you going to build one?
i wish i knew half as much about lasers and electronics and machining as that guy