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(This essay was published at Pregones ) If you ask a child what superpower they would like to have, many would choose the power to fly. If you ask for more details, they would say something like they would enjoy the feeling of soaring over the landscape like a bird and seeing the familiar landmarks like a house or a school from up above. But what they would visualise would be a version of their…
Note: This is a computational essay , with code in Wolfram Language. Cyrtophora Sitting in a hostel room in Pondicherry in 1997, I was wondering what project to pursue for my master's thesis and since I had studied plants before, I was leaning towards some plant ecology project. A senior and good friend of mine suggested I look into spiders, arguing that there were a remarkable neglect of studies…