For spider admirers/haters/nerds:
Mixed feelings on this one… What say you?
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Mixed? How?
Well, what I mean is… it’s mechanically / scientifically interesting and as a lab venture a few spiders aren’t the end of the world. Now, if someone decides they’ll eradicate every “X” spider they find, on a colossal scale, just to put the corpses to work for their profit, then yeah that’s a totally different ballgame. But as research, no problem really.
And I neither love nor hate spiders. They just are. As long as they’re not crawling on my skin, at least. 
But I have to admit that despite being a generally curious individual I never asked why they curl up when dead. At least I learned that!!
Thanks for the link.
More about spiders: Regularly occurring bouts of retinal movements suggest an REM sleep–like state in jumping spiders: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2204754119
When you think about it, it’s really amazing that basically all animals need to sleep. It’s almost like animal-sentient life without sleep is not possible for some fundamental reason.
I saw “spider” and all I could think was this terrific sf book I’ve read recently:
No spoiler here for those of you who like science fiction and want to read the book, all i will say is that it really changed my perception of spiders, now I kinda like them
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