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Slingshot Spider
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and to an anchor point somewhere behind it.
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putting the web under tension and pulling it back
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
Comfortable if you already follow TV news
- 96% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 160 words a minute: a natural pace.
- 9 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Yael, my favorite comic book character is Spider-Man. It's too bad there isn't really a spider more like him. Well Dawn, in 2019, three researchers from Georgia reported that they discovered a tiny spider in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest that has a behavior that's surprisingly similar
to the web-slinging superhero. How so, Yael? The spider uses its web as a slingshot. It attaches a silken thread to the center of the web
and to an anchor point somewhere behind it. Then it reels the central thread in, putting the web under tension and pulling it back into a cone.
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