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NPR Likes Giant Flying Spiders That Land on Your Head. I Beg to Differ.

NPR Likes Giant Flying Spiders That Land on Your Head. I Beg to Differ.
I just ran across an article on the NPR website that extols the virtues of one of the most god-awful life forms to ever inhabit the earth: the Joro spider –
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