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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 87: Arachnophobia, Boxing Day, and Citizen Science

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week, Cal talks about losing birds, riding the lightning, those tiny hairs, and so much more.

 

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0:00.0

What's up? This is Ryan Hollins 10 year NBA vet and current analyst for the Houston Rockets.

0:04.9

And I've got a new podcast called NBA Rookie Life, given you weekly news, analysis,

0:09.7

and an inside look into the 2022 draft class. This rookie class is really so bad.

0:15.6

Each week, I'll be breaking down the best rookie performances, as well as getting behind the

0:20.4

scene stories and welcome to the league moments that make NBA Rookie Life so crazy.

0:26.1

Listen to NBA Rookie Life with Ryan Hollins on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast,

0:31.7

or wherever you get your podcast. Two NBA insiders podcasting twice a week to plug you right into

0:39.3

the NBA great fight. All happening in only one place. This league on cut, the new NBA podcast

0:46.2

with me, Chris Haines and me, Mark Stein. Join us as we team up to expound on everything we're

0:53.1

covering, hearing, and chasing. Listen to this league on cut with Chris Haines and Mark Stein.

0:58.8

On the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

1:13.2

From Meadieder's World News Headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review

1:18.8

with Ryan. Cal, Cal in. Now, here's Cal. Recent news from the University of Bristol

1:26.7

will leave both spider lovers and arachnophobes shocked.

1:31.2

That's shocking. Researchers recently tested and observed spiders taking flight in a sealed box

1:38.9

when electrical fields were present. When the charged atmosphere was turned off, the spiders

1:44.8

felt, if levitating spiders make your tiny hair stand on end, you aren't alone. Those tiny

1:52.5

hairs on spiders' legs called tricobotheria are how they sense the intensity of the Earth's

1:58.6

electric field. When conditions have enough pull, they tiptoe their abdomens to the sky,

2:05.5

release several independent strands of negatively charged silk and lift off.

2:11.2

Settle air currents were believed to be the only way spider flight was accomplished until the

2:16.6

magnetic field theory was introduced. The Bristol experiment is the first to confirm the theory

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