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Why You Should Never Kill a Spider in Your House or Garden

Mother Wolf Spider And Babies

Despite popular belief, house spiders are not dangerous and are actually super helpful house guests, says entomologist Matt Bertone.

“I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Don’t kill the next spider you see in your home,” he writes.

“Why? Because spiders are an important part of nature and our indoor ecosystem.”

For the most part, Bertone says, house spiders stick to their corners and are never aggressive toward humans.

Better yet, they eat the bugs that are actually harmful to us, like blood-sucking mosquitoes, disease-spreading cockroaches, clothes-eating moths, pesky flies and earwigs.

“Some people think of spiders as insects, lumping them in with six-legged invaders like roaches or ants,” Russell Mclendon writes for Mother Nature Network.

“But they’re not insects, and they don’t want to raid our cupboards. Much like their outdoor relatives that eat crop pests, house spiders just want to quietly kill the insects that do covet our food. If anything, they’re on our side. “

Spiders are also a natural defense against garden pests like aphids, moths and beetles.

If you still suffer from arachnophobia, consider this, common house spiders like the long-legged cellar spider or “Daddy Long Legs” actually eat black widows!

https://returntonow.net/2018/09/08/why-you-should-never-kill-a-house-spider/

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Climate Change Explained

Climate Change Explained

If you are inclined to do so homework the MSM won’t show you, go to tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog and search Climate Change topic. Some eye opening data from eminent scientists all the way to the Climate Gate scandal of doctored data.

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Serene Teffaha explains our rights, the corruption and the law

Serene Teffaha a lawyer explains our rights, the corruption and the law when it comes to compulsory medications. How to say no to your employer who is demanding you to get one. How employers can say no to government and don’t push their employees to get a jab. And much more. Watch this video from 1:05:50 to get right to the subjects mentioned above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQucrkt9Crw

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Armchair, Remote Hawks versus Up Close And Personal Doves

Ukraine War Hawk

A new article for The Irish Times by Virginia Tech professor Gerard Toal, titled “Ukraine risks being locked into endless war in bid for perfect peace,” contains a very interesting paragraph:

Ordinary Ukrainians on the front lines are divided on a ceasefire and negotiations. My Ukrainian colleague Karina Korostelina and I surveyed the attitudes of both residents and displaced persons in three Ukrainian cities close to the southeast battlefields this summer. Almost half agreed it was imperative to seek a ceasefire to stop Russians killing Ukraine’s young men. Slightly more supported negotiations with Russia on a complete ceasefire, with a quarter totally against and a fifth declaring themselves neutral. Respondents were torn when considering whether saving lives or territorial unity were more important to them. Those most touched by the war, namely the internally displaced, were more likely to prioritise saving lives. Other research reveals that those farthest from the battlefields have the most hawkish attitudes.

It’s the third from the last paragraph in the article, whose overall content cannot be remotely construed as sympathetic toward Moscow, but it’s very important information.

“Those most touched by the war, namely the internally displaced, were more likely to prioritise saving lives. Other research reveals that those farthest from the battlefields have the most hawkish attitudes.”

Those two simple sentences sum up so much of the attitude we are seeing toward this war, and it applies as much to those cheerleading continual escalation and bloodshed from the comfort of their homes on the other side of the world.

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/the-farther-people-are-from-the-fighting-in-ukraine/

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Why Are We Failing In Science Ethics?

(Snaffled from a friend on FB.)

When I was a middle school science teacher all of the life science texts available to us included a “Lab Manual.” Without fail, every lab manual from major science text publishers walked teachers and students through how to follow a recipe to reword a weak hypothesis, how to follow a poorly written experiment that never accounted for all of the variables, and then how to write vague conclusion built on conjecture from a rubric that told the student how to regurgitate unsupported science verbatim in order to get the most points for the assignment.

As a teacher, I was aware that none of our classroom experiments taught my students how to ask hard questions or how to consider known and unknown variables, or how to isolate those variables. I had a gut feeling that I was really not teaching anything but how to follow the leader. I wrote my own cognitive dissonance off by assuming that these were the in-depth studies that my students would take on later, in more advanced biology classrooms.

As it turns out, biology students by and large never experience any more advanced labs that require them to test the foundational experiments upon which modern biology and medical science are built.

Rockefeller was an incredibly clever bastard.