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The smoked corpses of Papua New Guinea: Tribe pays respect to the dead by curing them and hanging them above their village to look over them

Villagers smoke dead men, women and children like kippers They drain the fat from the dead bodies before and use it as cooking oil Practise has been banned sine 1975 but still carries on in remote parts From the cliffs of a village in Papua New Guinea’s Morobe highlands, charred corpses leer at passers-by. Their flesh is stained red, and they seem to be imprisoned within cages of bamboo, as […]

Not for the faint-hearted! Medical website lets you virtually dissect dead bodies

Anatomedia was built for medical students to practice dissections Corpses are in short supply so the software makes the process easier Users can see detailed dissections and cross-sections of real bodies Tool took 20 years to develop by experts at Monash University, Australia To use the tool, users must request access from the university Database could one day be used to create a 3D virtual human that students can feel […]