Episode

235: No Such Thing As Trousers For Spiders

2018-09-21 · 3 places on the map · episode transcript

1. Gulf of MaineOne-offUnited States

   In the 1950s, loads of messages in bottles were put in the Gulf of Maine, and all the maps we have of all the different ocean currents there are basically based on where everyone picked all those messages up.

   mentioned at 00:08:58 · See it on the map →

2. HighlandOne-offUnited Kingdom

   There's really the first one, which is kind of a modern style, was in Breymar in the early 1800s, and it came at a time when the Scottish were kind of finding themselves, and that's when all that kind of tartan... It…

   mentioned at 00:27:13 · See it on the map →

3. University of CanterburyOne-offNew Zealand

   Researchers at the University of Canterbury found that some spiders will even run away from another species of spider — the gregarious jumping spider — which pretends to be an ant.

   mentioned at 00:35:01 · See it on the map →

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