Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 7 a.m.
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Learn about why we remember things in the opposite order as we see them and how spiders use atmospheric electricity to balloon through the air. You\\u2019ll also learn who actually ate the first oyster from author Cody Cassidy.
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You Remember in the Opposite Order as You See by Reuben Westmaas
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Ballooning spiders surf on electric fields by Cameron Duke
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- Palermo, E. (2015, May 15). Cloudy with a Chance of Arachnids? \\u201cSpider Rain\\u201d Explained. Livescience.Com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/50856-spider-rain-explained.html
- Morley, E. L., & Robert, D. (2018). Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders. Current Biology, 28(14), 2324-2330.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.057
- Spiders go ballooning on electric fields. (2018, July 5). Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2018-07-spiders-ballooning-electric-fields.html
- Science Magazine. (2018). Watch a \\u2018ballooning\\u2019 spider take flight [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrS0igctMi0
- Yong, E. (2018, July 5). Spiders Use Earth\\u2019s Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Miles. The Atlantic; The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/
Additional resources from author Cody Cassidy:
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