Comments on: ’T Ain’t Natural http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/27/t-aint-natural/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:55:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sara T. http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/27/t-aint-natural/#comment-85690 Sara T. Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:53:06 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/27/t-aint-natural/#comment-85690 Some exhibits are good in this museum. But when K and I went last summer some of them were trashed and/or falling apart. It was sad compared to the Field Museum in Chicago - we were spoiled! Some exhibits are good in this museum. But when K and I went last summer some of them were trashed and/or falling apart. It was sad compared to the Field Museum in Chicago - we were spoiled!

]]> By: spyder http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/27/t-aint-natural/#comment-85587 spyder Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:38:48 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/27/t-aint-natural/#comment-85587 I can't be the only one who finds it somewhat hysterical that the Spider Pavilion project is sponsored by a pest extermination company (indeed one of CA's most enduring such companies). I could surmise that sponsorship promotes a better understanding of spiders for their pest control activities, but something more provocative seems afoot. The dangerous, most venomous ones are behind the glass, reminding those who visit that should they see one of these (the actually likelihood is very minute except for black widows) they need to call an exterminator. Since so many spiders look somewhat similar, it seems to me that this will only increase exterminator business not reduce it. I have had the misfortune in my life of being bitten by both, black widows (extremely painful [don't walk around barefoot in your garden in the early morning hours stepping into plants and dense foilage], makes you feel like you have the flu, and looks really nasty) and a brown recluse (44 years ago when i was sixteen {seriously nasty ugly painful mess}, i retain the complete lack of sensation on my right thigh to this day). In all cases it was my intentionally putting myself in harms way, getting into their realms and messing with them when i should have known better. When you start using spaces where these live, they become encouraged to leave and move on; rarely do they fight back. I can’t be the only one who finds it somewhat hysterical that the Spider Pavilion project is sponsored by a pest extermination company (indeed one of CA’s most enduring such companies). I could surmise that sponsorship promotes a better understanding of spiders for their pest control activities, but something more provocative seems afoot. The dangerous, most venomous ones are behind the glass, reminding those who visit that should they see one of these (the actually likelihood is very minute except for black widows) they need to call an exterminator. Since so many spiders look somewhat similar, it seems to me that this will only increase exterminator business not reduce it.

I have had the misfortune in my life of being bitten by both, black widows (extremely painful [don't walk around barefoot in your garden in the early morning hours stepping into plants and dense foilage], makes you feel like you have the flu, and looks really nasty) and a brown recluse (44 years ago when i was sixteen {seriously nasty ugly painful mess}, i retain the complete lack of sensation on my right thigh to this day). In all cases it was my intentionally putting myself in harms way, getting into their realms and messing with them when i should have known better. When you start using spaces where these live, they become encouraged to leave and move on; rarely do they fight back.

]]> By: Yvette http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/27/t-aint-natural/#comment-85293 Yvette Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:25:14 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/27/t-aint-natural/#comment-85293 Haha, reminds me a bit of my old high school dances at the Carnegie Natural History Museum. For whatever reason the big hall of said museum was relatively affordable to rent out, so pretty much every high school in the area rented it out for a semi-formal while I was a teenager. And hey, for better or worse us Pittsburgh kids are probably the only ones to say we danced our dances underneath the shadow of the tyrannosaurus! :) Haha, reminds me a bit of my old high school dances at the Carnegie Natural History Museum. For whatever reason the big hall of said museum was relatively affordable to rent out, so pretty much every high school in the area rented it out for a semi-formal while I was a teenager. And hey, for better or worse us Pittsburgh kids are probably the only ones to say we danced our dances underneath the shadow of the tyrannosaurus! :)

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