Okay, I'm sure that all of you are aware that the powers that be have
decided to re-boot the Spiderman franchise and the new version will
be out in theaters shortly. Spiderman is based in NYC and it is not
surprising to see certain NYC landmarks used in the films. In the
new film, the American
Although I'll be in the city around the time of the exhibit, living here in
Kansas provides me more than enough exposure to arachnids... I've lived in a
lot of places, but I've never seen so many and so many varieties of spiders.
On top of that, my clinical colleague used to have a tarantula
I used to think that spiders were cute and harmless until I was bitten
by a brown recluse. It happened in a classic manner. I pulled a bike
jersey out from the back of a closet and put it on immediately. I
didn't feel the bite. But later that evening I had a big red swollen
spot on my
I have always been rather indifferent to spiders and would even become som
ewhat annoyed when my wife and kids would complain about the presence of a
spider in the house (e.g., Daddly Long-legs or some other seemingly innocuous
species) that needed to be killed or, as I would do, simply toss
*ASSISTANT PROFESSOR*. The Department of Psychological Science at the
University of Central Missouri (www.ucmo.edu/psychology) seeks to fill two
tenure-track assistant professor positions in Psychology. Both positions
begin August, 2013.
For both positions, doctoral degree must be completed by
I live in a hundred-odd year-old house in Eastern Kansas, and I have them.
Just was reading the wiki article on the little devils, and came across this
sentence:
In 2001, more than 2,000 brown recluse spiders were removed from a heavily
infested home in Kansas, yet the four residents who had
