Saturday Citations: Tarantulas and their homies; how mosquitoes find you; black holes not mysterious at all
People tend to have one of two reactions to tarantulas: a sharp, primal terror that author David Foster Wallace described as “the howling fantods,” or the kind of attachment more commonly associated with kittens and puppies. People are just not indifferent to tarantulas....
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