Monday, November 8, 2010

Fear doctors (mad scientists?) use tarantulas to terrify volunteers

When I was in grade school in La Puente my buddy and I use to catch tarantulas in the nearby hills. We poured water down a hole, they came up, and we scooped them into jars.

Then the fun really started. We’d  each take one to school with us and would release them in a classroom! Never got caught releasing them either. What an uproar they caused, especially with the girls!

I never considered tarantulas scary and would let them walk all over me to impress  friends (and foes). But it looks like a lot of people are afraid of the little guys as evidenced by this new story:

“To observe the brain’s panic-response network in full freak, British researchers asked 20 volunteers to lie inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine. One by one, the scientists then had each person view a screen that showed a tarantula crawling closer ... and ... closer to the subject’s feet.” Read the rest here.

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