7.03.2006

Drugged Spiders And The Webs They Weave


This one is from the Kircher Society.

During the 1950s, a swiss pharmacologist named Peter Witt conducted a set of experiments in spider doping. He found that the spiders spun uniquely cockeyed webs depending on which substance they had ingested. Based on this finding, Witt proposed a new way for law enforcement to identify confiscated drugs that would be cheaper than traditional chemical analysis: simply feed the drugs to spiders and observe their webs.

I think it's funny that the worse web of them all was on caffeine. I'm still the most intruiged by the LSD Web. It's so overly perfect it loses its worth as a web.

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