Saint Patrick: When the True Story is More Exciting than the Legend
The 17th March marks Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick, a cultural and religious holiday celebrated every year in Ireland and by Irish communities around the world. The celebration marks the anniversary of Saint Patrick’s death in the fifth century and represents the arrival of Christianity in the country. The Irish have observed this day as a holiday for over 1,000 years, and while the festival began as a religious feast day for the patron saint of Ireland, today it has become an international celebration of Irish culture.
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Meet squishy, and a fuzz-covered stinging tree to find out whether elements of their deadly venoms can be turned into something nicer.
GUESTS:
Professor Damian Candusso, Head of School of Creative Practice, Queensland University of Technology.
Professor Irina Vetter, Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland.
And if you d like to see more of Squishy, Ann and Christina, make sure you tune in to Catalyst this week on the TV and ABC iView!
It is a discovery fit for a horror film, a snake catcher found dozens and dozens of snake skins in the roof of a home on the Gold Coast. Reid Newell from Snake Catchers Brisbane & Gold Coast, was called to a home in Currumbin last week when he made the shocking discovery of more than 50 snake skins. The photo I took was only some of the sheds I pulled out, he told The Courier-Mail. I roughly counted about 57 snake skins. I couldn t say how many snakes it was from, but it definitely wasn t one. It wasn t just from the one species either, there was carpet python sheds in there, and also common tree snake sheds.