The Week contest: Soundproof web
This week's question: Researchers have discovered that funnel-web spiders from busy urban areas can weave soundproof webs, allowing them to eat their prey in peace. If a company were to manufacture a scaled-up funnel web for noise phobic humans, what name should it give the product?
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THE WINNER: "Weave Me Alone"
Troup Miller, Austin, Texas
SECOND PLACE: "World Hide Web"
John Ewers, Forsyth, Illinois
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THIRD PLACE: "Little Miss Muffl-It"
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Shhharlotte's Web"
Georgianna Groux, Asheville, North Carolina
"A Quiet Lace"
Rich Wolf, Westminster, Maryland
"Snare Pods"
Jeffrey A. Young, Dover, Delaware
"Little Miss Muffler"
Erica Avery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
"Arachnook"
Guy Rusiski, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Spider-Man Cave"
John R, Bregoli, Braintree, Massachusetts
"Buzzkill"
Ellen Skagerberg, Santa Rosa, California
"Weave of Absence"
Jeff Jerome, Northampton, Massachusetts
"Spidey Hidey"
Jennifer King Maggio, Galloway, New Jersey
"Funnel Cone of Silence"
Gregg Christenson, Englewood, Florida
"Arachnutopia"
Jessica Lefort, Saline, Michigan
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