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Hosts Regina Barber and Emily Kwong fill in NPR's Ailsa Chang on a debate in spider web architecture, how the details shared in storytelling affect how you form memories and why more pixels may not translate to a better TV viewing experience.

Let's zoom in on that first story.

Orb webs are among the most easily spotted spider webs in nature. Shaped like a wheel, with concentric circles around silk spokes, the webs are sometimes adorned with decorations – called stabilimenta . Some stabilimenta look like a zig zag decoration, while others take the shape of a circular disk.

But what purpose do they serve?

Physicist Gabriele Greco got in on the debate with a hypothesis of his own. These deco

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