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How Spiders Fly

In a piece inspired by this Naturalist’s Notebook, H.R. Smith interviews a physicist who worked out the basics of this phenomenon: “The calculations were a piece of cake, he said. Undergraduate-level physics. None of the scientific journals he contacted would publish it,” Smith writes. “Where was his biology lab? Where were his spiders?” Read the story

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Naturalist and illustrator John Muir Laws is the author of the Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada and Sierra Birds: A Hiker's Guide. Learn more and find class schedules at johnmuirlaws.com.