Eleanor Spicer Rice
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202 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2d ago
Eleanor Spicer Rice’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Even if you're standing in an Arctic tundra, you are never more than four feet from a spider.
They're under your floorboards, they're under your, you know, counters, they're under your couch.
And so the ones that frighten you in your house, they're adults, they've been living their their whole lives.
Two
It's kind of wonderful.
It helped me to stop being so afraid of spiders.
As an entomologist, that was a big shame of mine.
The thing is that despite all that we're saying about not keep taking these weirdo pets home with you and giving them a life they can't have, the pets that we do have do immense good for our health.
And my god, I mean they they increase our health and emotionally and physical health.
So they decrease our um stress, they improve our heart health.
And they help children and adults with their social and emotional skills because we're connecting with things that are not talking to us and we're learning about behaviors and learning how to read another being.
And
Dogs can help if a mother is pregnant and has a dog, whether she has a dog when she has the baby or not, the mother takes microbes, bacteria and fungi, tiny little creatures from that dog and gives them to her baby.
And that baby.
Is shown with those microbes that she got from her dog when she had her baby in her belly.
Those microbes are shown to help protect the child.
from uh obesity and lower its stress as it grows.
So
In many weird and microscopic ways, our pets are actually enriching our lives.
Thanks so much, Mike.
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