A little-known history, from Nazi Germany, concerned the infamous "Nazi spider experiments." In one experiment, they would carefully measure the calories given to a spider and then starve it to death while measuring the amount of web it could spin before dying. They discovered that the energy expended in producing their webs (measuring, in length, almost three quarters of a mile!) exceeded the amount of energy taken in.
Loren M. Lambert © July 2, 2010
Loren M. Lambert © July 2, 2010
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