"He noted that these spiders will wrap their trapped prey in what seems to be an excessive amount of silk. Earlier studies showed that two species of uloborids spent over an hour enveloping their prey, more than a hundred times what other orb-weavers will devote to the task. In doing so, they used up a spectacular 80 metres of silk." - Ross Miller via Bookmarklet
Wow! That was so incredible!! I can't imagine a lion hug... - Skye Miller
I'd like to see a Snopes.com article about this video. It just seems too fitting-into-a-chain-mail-message-y. - Mark Trapp
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“30 days, 16020 spam emails = 534 spam emails/day... Thank the G-gods for Gmail spam filters! Good thing I work with them so I can thank them myself :-)”
"And finally... the most important take home message: Drug Policy has NOTHING to do with drug use. We can put users, dealers, producers, cousins of uncles of friends of users, their dogs, cats, guinea pigs, or the lint under their couches in jail or to death and it will have no effect on whether people use drugs or not. Education however... just maybe that will help." - Ross Miller via Bookmarklet
A Gallup survey out this week reveals a wide partisan gap in perceptions of evolution. Specifically, 60% of Republicans say humans were created in their present form by God 10,000 years ago, a belief shared by only 40% of independents and 38% of Democrats. - Ross Miller via Bookmarklet
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