Friday, September 29, 2023

Bones and bananas

Two somewhat surprising videos from Youtube today:

The first - I don't recall seeing this surprising ceremony from Madagascar before - where a huge number of people turn up to carry around the 7 year dead body of a beloved relative, in a very celebratory fashion.  (Although one child in it finds it pretty upsetting). 

 

And secondly - turns out that the bite of a spider in South America known as a "banana spider" was well known for causing priapism, and now the molecule derived from it is well on the way to being used in a ointment for erectile dysfunction (!):

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