Desert Island General Survival 

How to Survive Being Stranded on a Deserted Island, According to Science

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So, you’re stranded on a deserted island, no fast food or coffee within reach. Do you have a pet volleyball like Tom Hanks had Wilson? Do you imagine that living creatures are food, like in cartoons? How will you approach the physical and mental demands of being all alone, and without the modern comforts of home? How do you endure being stranded on a deserted island? Well, here’s how you survive, Hey, don’t try to wing it. You’d be best to borrow a tip from the Boy Scouts. They use…

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General Survival 

How to Survive Arachnophobia

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An old cabin in the woods. Cozy, and wait. What is that? Is that a spider? Agh. The walls are covered with huge spiders. Your quiet retreat is now the perfect setting for a horror movie. Fear paralyzes your body, you can feel their creeping legs crawling all across your skin. Your chest starts to hurt. You’re choking. Arachnophobia is an anxiety disorder that affects more than 420 million people around the world. That’s more than 6% of the global population. If you’re affected by this phobia, you can experience…

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General Survival 

How to Survive the Most Dangerous Snake Bites

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The sharp, piercing pain came from out of nowhere. Your throat tightens as you stare down your attacker. The World Health Organization says snakes bite about five million people annually, causing 81,000 to 138,000 deaths. Your best chance of surviving these fatal bites is with antivenom, but you would need to identify what your potential killer is. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back. Here is our list of the top five deadliest snake bites. Knowing your enemy can help you survive. To avoid snake bites, be especially careful in places…

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Food 

How To Forage For Edible Plants

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Hey, I’m Josh Clark, and this is BrainStuff. And this the BrainStuff where I talk to you about survival foraging. So I have bad news everybody. America, and pretty much the rest of humanity, has turned its back on our hunter/gatherer roots. Luckily some people have guarded this ancient wisdom and kept it alive and can pass it along. I am not one of those people. I’m just a host. And for legal reasons, you should not listen to anything I say from this point forward. But there are some…

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General Survival 

What If You Got Caught in a Giant Spider Web?

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Do you hate spiders? “Oh, little babies coming out of it!” “Ahhh!” “Ahh, look at them.” Their legs, their eyes, and, oh man, their webs. Well, it turns out that they don’t like you much either. Imagine that you’ve stumbled into the belly of the beast, and now you’re trapped in the sticky, horrifying webs of a giant spider. It looks like you’ve gotten yourself into a sticky situation. Spiders’ webs are not something to take lightly. Especially if you’re caught in one. Each strand of spider silk is 1,000…

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General Survival 

How to Survive an Anaconda Attack

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Hearing someone scream “snake!” can cause people to panic. And when you’re in the shallow, murky rivers of South America, home to the deadly anaconda, you realize this is not a garden snake coming towards you. It’s a green anaconda. These are not small snakes. It’s often said that green anacondas can grow up to 9 m in length (30 ft,) and they can weigh as much as 225 kg (550 lb). Anacondas’ prey ranges from 10% of their body weight all the way up to 146%. So, humans are…

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General Survival Navigation 

Map and Compass (Simplified)

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Welcome to corporals corner today, we’re going to talk about basic land navigation using a map and compass so stick around Last time we talked about land navigation. We kept it simple and discussed the basics using a Suunto mc2 So I thought today why not continue that discussion and keep it simple – a quick review I’m going through a topographical map into that equation So here we have our basic Suunto MC to start here at the top we have our signal and sighting mirror It can be…

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General Survival 

How To Survive A Snake Bite

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(rattlesnake rattles) [Narrator] Uh oh, you’ve just been bitten by a snake. So, what do you do now? [Indiana Jones] Snakes, why’d it have to be snakes? [Narrator] There are about 3,000 different species of snakes in the world, both venomous and non-venomous. While they can be deadly, most snakes are only likely to bite you in self defense. Frank Burbrink studies snakes at the American Museum of Natural History. [Burbrink] The most venomous snake in the world is the inland taipan from Australia. But it really doesn’t envenomate that…

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General Survival Nuclear 

How to Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse

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Uh, that doesn’t sound good. You’ve survived catastrophic disasters in previous episodes like tsunamis, landslides, and hurricanes. But this time, the entire world is at stake. An all out nuclear war has erupted. Countries are launching attacks and others are retaliating. What should you do to get out of this world-ending scenario? Right now, nine countries are in possession of nuclear weapons. If any one of them launched even one of the almost 15,000 nuclear warheads in the world, it would cause a wave of chaos and destruction. A blast…

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General Survival 

DEADLIEST SPIDER BITE!

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– [Coyote] You ready? – [Cameraman] Oh, spider, huge spider! Right there right there, Oh, whoa. right there, right there. Is that a tarantula? – [Coyote] No no no no no. I think that’s a funnel web spider. – Okay, a bite from this is potentially lethal. I’m just gonna set that down and see if I can coax it. It’s in, it’s in there, it’s in there. (highly energetic music) Australia’s arguably the most dangerous continent in the world. I’m sure that as your imagination begins to run wild,…

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