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Spice Up Our Love
Spice Up Our Love (사장님의 식단표, The CEO's Menu) is a 2024 two-episode South Korean TVING romantic comedy fantasy spin-off of No Gain No Love, starring Han Ji-hyun and Lee Sang-yi, streaming on Prime Video, in which a web novelist wakes inside her own R-rated novel.
Spice World (film)
Spice World is a 1997 British musical comedy film starring the Spice Girls as themselves, directed by Bob Spiers, ahead of their Royal Albert Hall concert.
SpiceJet
SpiceJet, also known as Royal Airways, is an Indian low-cost airline founded in 2005 and headquartered in Gurugram, operating domestic and international passenger flights and SpiceXpress cargo services.
Spiceworld (album)
Spiceworld, the Spice Girls' second studio album (Virgin, 3 November 1997), recorded largely during the Spice World film shoot; three weeks at UK No. 1, No. 1 in eleven other territories, and over 14 million copies sold worldwide.
Spicy Love Soup (爱情麻辣烫)
Spicy Love Soup (爱情麻辣烫, Aiqing mala tang) is a 1997 Chinese romantic ensemble film, Zhang Yang's directorial debut, produced by Peter Loehr's Imar Film with Xi'an Film Studio; five love vignettes framed by a couple's wedding earned 30 million yuan, second only to Titanic that year.
SPIDAR
SPIDAR (Space Interface Device for Artificial Reality) is a string-based haptic interface family developed at Tokyo Institute of Technology, using motor-driven strings to track the hand and apply force feedback in virtual environments.
Spider
Spider (Araneae): silk-producing, venomous arachnid predator found worldwide except Antarctica. About 51,500 described species, evolved roughly 400 million years ago; most build no webs, and spiders strongly suppress crop pests.
Spider (2002 film)
Spider (2002) is David Cronenberg's psychological drama, adapted by Patrick McGrath from his novel, starring Ralph Fiennes as a schizophrenic man reconstructing his mother's murder; distinct from Spider-Man (2002).
Spider (pulp fiction character)
The Spider is Richard Wentworth, hero of the Popular Publications pulp magazine The Spider (118 issues, October 1933 to December 1943), mainly written by Norvell Page as Grant Stockbridge; a violent Shadow competitor who branded crimson spider seals on criminals, adapted to 1938 and 1941 Columbia serials.
Spider (solitaire)
Spider (solitaire): two-deck, ten-column patience game won by building eight King-to-Ace same-suit runs; played at 1, 2, or 4 suits; popularized by Microsoft Plus! 98 and Windows Me; generalized version NP-Complete.
Spider anatomy
Spider anatomy is the body plan of spiders: a two-part body of prosoma and abdomen joined by a pedicel, with eight legs, fanged chelicerae, and spinnerets.
Spider angioma
Spider angioma (spider nevus, nevus araneus, spider telangiectasia): a benign skin lesion with a central dilated arteriole and radiating capillaries; common in pregnancy and a marker of liver disease when multiple.
Spider as world-weaver in creation cosmology
Spider as world-weaver in creation cosmology is the mythic motif in which spiders create or shape the world by spinning, weaving, or lowering it, found across Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
Spider behavior
Spider behavior: dispersal by silk ballooning (aerodynamic and electrostatic mechanisms), web building and foraging, learning and cognition in jumping spiders, mating strategies, and spiders' pest-control role in agroecosystems.
Spider bite
Spider bite: injury from spider fangs, usually minor. Medically significant groups are Latrodectus widow spiders (latrodectism, muscle cramps) and Loxosceles recluse spiders (necrotic lesions); overdiagnosis outside native ranges is common.
Spider cannibalism
Spider cannibalism covers sexual cannibalism, where female spiders eat mates before, during, or after copulation, and nonsexual cannibalism among juveniles and social species. Key hypotheses are adaptive foraging, mate choice, and aggressive spillover; males counter with nuptial gifts, remote copulation, and self-sacrifice.
Spider conservation in Europe
Spider conservation in Europe protects about 4,500 spider species through red lists, legal protection, and monitoring; 714 species are nationally threatened, while EU law covers just one species.
Spider conservation in New Zealand
Spider conservation in New Zealand is the national system of threat listings and recovery programs protecting a highly endemic spider fauna, with only three legally protected taxa.
Spider crab
Spider crabs are crabs of the superfamily Majoidea, defined by long, slender legs on a small carapace, and many species camouflage themselves with algae, sponges, and other living material.
Spider families and higher taxa
Spider families and higher taxa are the groupings of spiders (order Araneae) above genus: roughly 139 families, arranged into suborders, infraorders, and superfamilies, tracked by the World Spider Catalog.
Spider families of Asia
The spider families of Asia are the families represented across the continent's forests, mountains, and river plains, led by jumping spiders, with East Asia holding 63 araneomorph families.
Spider fauna of South America
The spider fauna of South America comprises 8,302 described species in 83 families, about 17% of the world's spider biodiversity, with 94% of species endemic to the continent.
Spider fighting
Spider fighting (kumo gassen, kumo sumo, Philippine spider wrestling) is a folk game or betting sport pitting two spiders against each other on a stick, with documented traditions in Kagoshima, Japan, and the Philippines using female orb-weavers.
Spider foraging and predatory behavior
Spider foraging and predatory behavior describes how spiders that hunt without capture webs find, choose, and subdue prey, using vision, vibration, silk wrapping, venom, and aggressive mimicry of other spiders.
Spider Grandmother
Spider Grandmother (Hopi Koyangwuti/Kokyangwuti; Navajo Na'ashjé'ii Asdzáá) is a Southwestern Native American creator goddess who made humans from clay, led them to the Fourth World, and taught weaving, honored through spirit lines in baskets and rugs.
Spider keeping
Spider keeping is the practice of keeping live spiders as invertebrate pets, dominated by tarantulas and jumping spiders in a global trade of millions of individuals.
Spider mite
Spider mites (Tetranychidae) are plant-feeding arachnid mites, including the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae, a polyphagous crop pest on nearly 800 plant species and the most acaricide-resistant arthropod known.
Spider monkey
Spider monkeys (genus Ateles) are large, highly frugivorous New World monkeys of Central and South American rainforests, with seven recognized species, prehensile tails, fission-fusion societies, and key seed-disperser roles; all species are declining, from vulnerable to critically endangered.
Spider monkey optimization
Spider monkey optimization (SMO) is a swarm intelligence metaheuristic for continuous numerical optimization, introduced by Jagdish Chand Bansal and colleagues in 2014, modeling the fission–fusion foraging of spider monkeys.
Spider One
Spider One, born Michael David Cummings in 1968, is an American singer and filmmaker, founder and vocalist of Boston-formed rock band Powerman 5000 and younger brother of Rob Zombie; known for the 1999 platinum album Tonight the Stars Revolt!.