yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

How to Solve the Scorpion Issue | Primal Survivor


less than 1m read
·Nov 11, 2024

Whoa, look at that! Look at that scorpion right there! There are over 1,700 types of scorpion, but the ones that can kill people live in the desert. I have experience with species like this and know how to avoid getting stung by careful handling. Wow, that is a venomous predator, so well adapted to live in this area of the world where not very many other animals can live.

These guys come out at night, and if I was to accidentally step on this guy, I'm apt to get stung. Worldwide, around 5,000 people die every year from scorpion stings. The neurotoxins they unleash can be 10 times more powerful than cyanide. But I'm getting it out of here—it's far away from where I'm sleeping.

However, where there's one, there might be others, so I'm taking no chances. For the bear nomads, they make this; it's called Catrin.

Catrin is an anti-scorpion agent made to an ancient Berber recipe. A mix of desert woods is superheated inside a closed container. The resultant blend of saps and resins coalesces into a black viscous liquid with a pungent smell. This is a traditional technique whose origins are lost, but which has been passed down through many generations.

It's very smelly; it's almost like a tar. But you put a little bit of this around where you sleep, and scorpions will not cross this smelly stuff. This will solve my scorpion issue!

More Articles

View All
The Music of Physics | StarTalk
Now it turns out there happens to be a guy out there who wrote an entire book on the connection between physics and music. An entire book. His name is Stefon Alexander, and he’s standing by right now live on video call. You guys, you have him. Oh, go! He…
Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a Distance
In the 1930s, Albert Einstein was upset with quantum mechanics. He proposed the thought experiment where, according to the theory, an event at one point in the universe could instantaneously affect another event arbitrarily far away. He called this spooky…
This Is Your Brain on Nature | Explorer
[Music] As a nature writer, I’ve always intuitively known that it was healthy for human beings to be out in the natural world. But it’s amazing what science has proven about what nature does to your brain. Some of the scientists I’ve been talking to would…
White House Wants To Cancel Stimulus | My Response
What’s up, you guys? It’s Graham here. So, I have an extra bonus video for you today because I was browsing the internet this morning—like I do pretty much every morning—and I came across something rather unexpected. Even more unexpected than unemploymen…
7 Stoic Ways to Escape the Chains of the World
The word ‘system’ in the context of this video doesn’t refer to a specific political, cultural, or religious system. It relates to what seems to underlie it all, what brings about a plethora of human behaviors and mental states like anger and anxiety, nam…
Why War Zones Need Science | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic
So you can see a skull very clearly up there, and actually, if you look closely, you can see there’s a number of other bones: long bones, bones of the foot. So, a whole pile of bones here. This is Ella Al-Shamahi; she’s standing on a rocky hillside next t…