Daddy Longlegs Myths, Dyson Spheres, and Benefits of Exercising with a Partner

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you learn something new in just a few minutes:

True or False? The Daddy Longlegs is Poisonous, But Its Fangs Are Too Small to Bite You
Advanced Alien Civilizations May Get Their Energy From a Dyson Sphere
“Star Maker” by Olaf Stapledon
You'll Have a Better Workout If You Exercise With a Partner

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.4	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.4	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.4	Today you'll learn the truth about a famous myth about daddy long legs, how advanced alien
0:12.3	civilizations might get their energy, and why you'll have a better
0:15.7	workout if you exercise with a partner.
0:17.7	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:18.7	All right Ashley, what's the most poisonous insect?
0:21.3	Well, I've heard that Daddy Longlegs is the most poisonous insect. Well I've heard that daddy long legs is the most poisonous
0:24.5	insect but they have such tiny little things that they can't actually hurt you.
0:28.8	Is that true? Well curiosity to research this and everything you just said is a
0:32.4	myth.
0:33.2	What?
0:33.8	Yeah, so first of all, a daddy longlegs,
0:36.5	is it a spider or is it an insect?
0:38.3	It's an insect, right?
0:39.3	It's not a spider.
0:40.4	It's actually both.
0:41.4	What?
0:42.0	Daddy long legs is an informal term for a couple different groups of animals.
0:46.0	The most common type, which some people also call Harvestman, are in the order of Pilionis, and they're insects. But the other type which some people call
0:54.8	cellar spiders are officially called falsity and that's actually a spider. Fun fact
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