Fear Month: Spiders!
Fear Month: Spiders!  
Podcast: SciShow Tangents
Published On: Tue Oct 29 2019
Description: SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear concludes with what is undeniably the scariest, most valid fear of any of those discussed... spiders! I'm not saying spiders will pour out of your headphones and into your ears when you listen to this, but I'm also not promising they won't.Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!  If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links![Truth or Fail]Recordshttps://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-10-weirdest-things-pressed-into-vinyl-records-this-year/https://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462289635/bones-and-grooves-weird-secret-history-of-soviet-x-ray-musicTattooshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/gwitchin-tattoo-skin-stitching-first-nations-1.3796606Canvaseshttps://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/07/cobwebportraits.htmlhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-lost-art-of-painting-on-cobweb-canvaseshttps://phys.org/news/2010-05-scientists-goats-spider-silk.html[Fact Off][Ask the Science Couch]Web constructionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-how-do-spiders-make-webs-180957426/https://sciencing.com/identify-spider-pattern-8635659.htmlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6053566/Making silkhttps://www.livescience.com/32582-how-do-spiders-make-silk.htmlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/spidroins[Butt One More Thing]Trashline orb weavershttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-the-spiders-that-completely-defy-what-we-know-as-jet-lag/https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/trashline-orbweavers