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Episode 520: Phil & Skye Answer Listener Voicemails

The Holy Post

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The Little Dead Spider's Legs

The walrus is too fat for a boat, too famous for a peer. She wants to find something that looks like a little ice floe to sleep on. But people's boats are sinking under her and she gets photographed by tourists. Did you hear about what they're doing at rice university with dead spiders? No? Wat? They discovered it can use a dead spider as a tiny claw to pick up tiny objects. You can actually make the dead spider expand its little stretch out its little legs if you inject air into it. And then when you pull the air out, the legs snap back. How humiliating.

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