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Betsy Mason
Betsy Mason is a freelance journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the coauthor, with Greg Miller, of
All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey.
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Spiders Play All Sorts of Mind Games
Arachnids are proof that animals don't need big brains to be brilliant.
Betsy Mason
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Knowable Magazine
November 6, 2021
