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Book

Uncover a Tarantula Take a Three-Dimensional Look Inside a Tarantula! (David George Gordon, Davide Bonadonna (Silver Dolphin, 2004 – Juvenile Nonfiction )

Uncover a Tarantula examines the structure and anatomy of the largest spiders in the world and provides fascinating facts and information on each exciting page. Learn how these predators capture and kill other insects and animals, use their bodies to protect and camouflage themselves and why their blood is green. This full-color illustrated book combines the best model elements to help readers truly uncover the mysteries of what makes things work. A fascinating three-dimensional presentation allows in-depth, hands-on exploration of the subject at hand. This unique model is easily built, deconstructed, and rebuilt layer-by-layer, system-by-system, just by turning a page, until an understanding of the topic is achieved. Kids will love to see and touch each disgusting but interesting tarantula part!

The Spider and the Fly (poem)

The Spider and the Fly is a poem by Mary Howitt (1799-1888), published in 1829. The first line of the poem is “‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the Spider to the Fly.” The story tells of a cunning Spider who ensnares a naive Fly through the use of seduction and flattery. The poem is a cautionary tale against those who use flattery and charm to disguise their true evil intentions. When Lewis Carroll was readying Alice’s Adventures Under Ground for publication he replaced a parody he had made of a negro minstrel song[1]with a parody of Howitt’s poem. The “Lobster Quadrille”, in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is a parody of Howitt’s poem; it mimics the meter and rhyme scheme, and parodies the first line, but not the subject matter, of the original.[2]

CARTOON

A Cartoon Spider

MOVIE

Arachnophobia

Storyline

A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidently transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It’s up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks before they take over the entire town.

SPIDER (2002)

Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed “Spider” by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality.

ARTICLES

SCIENCE

Replicating the Sensitive Sides of Spiders’ Legs

DEC. 15, 2014

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CreditMichael Reichel/DPA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Observatory

By SINDYA N. BHANOO

One of the most sensitive vibration sensors in the natural world is the lyriform organ, located in the legs of many spiders. The organ has a series of parallel slits of different lengths, much like the strings on the harplike instrument called the lyre, and helps spiders detect prey.

Now, researchers from South Korea have developed a highly acute sensor, made of a thin platinum-coated polymer, that was inspired by the organ.

“The polymer is very flexible, so we can bend it,” said Mansoo Choi, a mechanical engineer at Seoul National University and an author of the research, which appears in Nature. “And depending how much you bend it, you can generate controlled cracks.”

Vibrations cause slits in the sensor to come together or move apart. The researchers measured these changes to detect vibration characteristics like variations in frequency and size.

The sensor, just two-tenths of an inch by four-tenths of an inch, could be worn on the wrist to monitor and gather health information, Dr. Choi said. Attached to the neck, it could recognize simple spoken words — go, jump, shoot, stop — that might be used in a computer game.

The current prototype is 100 times as sensitive as the best commercially available sensor of its kind, he said. SINDYA N. BHANOO

DOCUMENTARIES

Published on Aug 31, 2012

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MISSREPRESENTED OF SPIDER

In Native American symbolism, the Spider is a symbol of protection against torrential storms. In yet other Native American lore accounts, the Spider (personified as the Grandmother) was the teacher and protector of esoteric wisdom.
The meaning of Spider in India is associated with Maya. The term Maya comes from the Sanskrit root “Ma” which means no form or limit. The term Maya describes the illusory nature of appearances. The Spider’s association with Maya brings about the understanding that not all things are as they appear to be.
The Spider symbol meaning in Egypt, is akin to Neith, a complex deity usually depicted with arrows as she is associated with hunting. Along with hunting, she is also associated with the creation, specifically the process of recreation in the dawning and dusking of each day. Neith is also a weaver, and is often shown with a shuttle in her hand (a tool used for weaving). It is this activity that gains her association with the Spider.
And of course, no conversation about the meaning of spiders is complete without discussing the Greek myth of Arachne, a mortal (although of noble stature) who was a spectacular weaver. Acclaim for her luscious lively looms spread over hill and dale and ultimately reached the immortal ears of Athena. Arachne claimed she was the best weaver, and thus prompted a challenge from Athena.
And so, they played a round of “dueling looms,” but no one could confirm the victor. However, Arachne was quite smug about the whole process. So much so, that Athena smote her with a mighty blow of conscience and a dose of guilt. Arachne took the dosage hard, and could not live with the intense feelings of guilt and sorrow so she killed herself. Athena felt awful over the whole mess and decided to resurrect Arachne in the form of a spider so that she and all her offspring would forever be the best weavers of the universe.