Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
— Seneca The Younger
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Because, on a good day, 2020 is an ongoing dumpster fire, the animal of the year for 2020 is Zoropsis spinimana, Mediterranean Spiny False Wolf Spider!
In 1995 NASA published it’s findings on the effects of common recreational drugs and toxins on the behavior and web building characteristics of spiders. It was only a preliminary report though and didn’t provide any insight into the long-term effects of various drugs upon the spiders’ behavior and web weaving.
Fortunately others have continued where NASA left off:
Spiders On Drugs – A Tangled Web Indeed
H/T to SwittersB & Fly Fishing for finding this great piece on YouTube.
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