Bench Talk | Spiders & Heat Tolerance - Plastic Recycling Update - October Night Sky | Sept 25, 2023

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English - September 25, 2023 03:57 - 29 minutes - 30.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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Rob Weber interviews Faith Boa (Georgetown College) about her research on heat tolerance in two species of spiders (Orchard Spiders: Leucauge venusta and Stone Spiders: Pardosa lapidicina). Then Jade Coxon (Purdue University) updates us on the ins-and-outs of recycling plastic. Finally, J Scott Miller fills us in on the stars, constellations, planets, meteor showers and eclipses we can see in the night sky in the month of October.

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