Weekly Webcrawl: September 6, 2013

A mystery structure found in the amazon. Photo by Troy Alexander.
A mystery structure found in the amazon. Photo by Troy Alexander.

A mystery structure found in the amazon may be a unique type of spider egg sac. Photo by Troy Alexander.

I caught an unfortunate glimpse of the show “Alien Autopsy” the other day. Why do we need to make up silly stuff like that when the world is already so mysterious all on its own? Case in point: “Weird web-tower things” in the Amazon.

A though provoking post by RadioLab host Robert Krulwich about the limits of science.

Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was a cool guy and he could see the future…okay, not really, but he had a better idea than most.