Black widows sense that they’ve snagged a meal based on motion and tension in their lines. They approach and touch the prey, then quickly flick out sticky silk and begin wrapping it to ...

The devolution from red pill to black pill is an illustration of the strange metastasis of online content, which tends to always grow darker. Reeve’s sources saw it happen over and over.

When researchers take away a black widow’s prey, the spider can remember how large the prey was and where it was in the web, and it will search harder for larger missing grubs. Close.

In the epilogue of “Black Pill,” Reeve describes the phenomenon this way: I met a woman who lived outside L.A. and was a lifelong liberal until her kids’ school being closed for Covid made ...

In “Black Pill,” the journalist Elle Reeve finds that the once-fringe alt-right is dead — because now it’s mainstream.

March 14 (UPI) --Black widow spiders could face extinction in parts of the southern United States, as they become prey for the non-native brown widow, according to new research.The research ...

‘Black Pill’ is a disturbing look at how ‘meme magic’ captured the GOP. Elle Reeve’s deeply reported book explores the slippery irony and dangerous absurdities at the heart of what was ...