Episode #905

Item #1 Science
Daddy-Longlegs are not spiders, but arachnids in the Opiliones order. They do not have venom or fangs. https://spiders.ucr.edu/daddy-long-legs
Item #2 Science
Sharks have a sense of smell about as good as other fish, equivalent to a drop of blood in an average-sized swimming pool. They can detect blood from hundreds of yards, but not miles, away. https://sharksinfo.com/how-far-can-sharks-smell-blood-in-the-water/
Item #3 Fiction
The Alaskan wood frog does not actually freeze in the winter, but hibernates beneath the mud at the bottom of lakes and ponds. https://www.nwf.org/educational-resources/wildlife-guide/amphibians/wood-frog

“It is much easier to con people than to convince them that they have been conned” John Allen Paulos on Sean Carrol’s Mindscape podcast. Nov 2022