SCIENCE

Last year the RSC launched a huge public investigation into a matter of national importance: are spiders afraid of conkers?

(Thanks to jon harris)

Comments

[Cheesewiz]

One less thing to wonder about.

[Jan in Grimsby]

Since when did the Royal Shakespeare Company begin conducting scientific experiments?

[Jeff Meyerson]

I thought RSC was Republican... uh, better not.

[Steve]

Very impressive, especially the school kids being so relaxed with the spiders.
I've said before that children learn their fears from their elders.
My wife's mother is terrified of almost all nature. She's always telling me that one of the spiders or snakes I fool with will kill me one day.
Maybe so. But I'm the one who doesn't have to take pills for my blood pressure.

[LeDud]

I wonder were the term "conker" came from ? (WAP......)

[Meanie the Blue]

Conkerphobia - an irrational fear of spiders.

[rickh]

here in the USA it is a widely held belief that osage oranges or hedge apples repel spiders.