(How to ruin a spider’s self-esteem)
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Imagine it. You’re walking through the rainforest at night when you hear a shuffling. Your soul goes tense, your nerves spark. “Hear a shuffling, he says,” you spit. You snatch your flashlight and swashbuckle its beam, hoping to catch the irritating jerk who keeps using verbs as nouns.
It’s long past midnight here in Guyana, the northeast shoulder of South America, a country whose list of natural resources includes shrimp. Nestled in between Venez...
Published on October 26, 2014 12:44