Learn about why we remember things in the opposite order as we see them and how spiders use atmospheric electricity to balloon through the air. You’ll also learn who actually ate the first oyster from author Cody Cassidy.

You Remember in the Opposite Order as You See by Reuben Westmaas

• Human brain recalls visual features in reverse order than it detects them: Study challenges traditional hierarchy of brain decoding; offers insight into how the brain makes perceptual judgements. (2017). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171009154946.htm
• Ding, S., Cueva, C. J., Tsodyks, M., & Qian, N. (2017). Visual perception as retrospective Bayesian decoding from high-to low-level features. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706906114
• Mohs, R. (2007, May 8). How Human Memory Works. HowStuffWorks. memory1.htm">https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/human-memory1.htm

Ballooning spiders surf on electric fields by Cameron Duke

• Kuchment, A. (2012). How Spiders “Balloon.” Scientific American, 307(1), 28–28. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0712-28b
• Martin Lister. (2020). Ypsyork.Org. https://www.ypsyork.org/resources/yorkshire-scientists-and-innovators/dr-martin-lister/
• Palermo, E. (2015, May 15). Cloudy with a Chance of Arachnids? “Spider Rain” Explained. Livescience.Com; Live Science. spider-rain-explained.html">https://www.livescience.com/50856-spider-rain-explained.html
• Morley, E. L., & Robert, D. (2018). Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders. Current Biology, 28(14), 2324-2330.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.057
• Spiders go ballooning on electric fields. (2018, July 5). Phys.org. 07-spiders-ballooning-electric-fields.html">https://phys.org/news/2018-07-spiders-ballooning-electric-fields.html
• Science Magazine. (2018). Watch a ‘ballooning’ spider take flight [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrS0igctMi0
• Yong, E. (2018, July 5). Spiders Use Earth’s Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Miles. The Atlantic; The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/

Additional resources from author Cody Cassidy:

• Pick up “Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History” on Amazon: https://amazon.com
• Cody Cassidy’s articles on Wired: https://www.wired.com/author/cody-cassidy/
• Cody Cassidy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodyCassidy

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