Why I Won’t Be Adopting #AllLivesMatter…
Because this is a given… All Lives Matter to me, anyway. However, as I consider the racially tense events of the past few months, the mainstream media response (or lack there of) to the killings Read More
The Bones of Monsters: Mutants (Part 3)
This is the last in my series on the The Bones of Monsters! When you think “mutant” do you think about ninja turtles or perhaps the sewer creatures of New New York? The term mutant Read More
Can We Talk About That Bone Floating Around In Your
There are about 206 (with some variation) bones in an adult human skeleton. As babies, we have about 270 soft bones, but as we grow and our bodies change, certain bones begin to go through a process Read More
A few weeks ago, I was power streaming the television series ‘Scrubs’, and in one episode they had a patient who was walking around the ficitional Sacred Heart hospital and saying whacky things. His diagnosis? “Read More
MIT media lab is hosting a CyborgCamp as a way to explore the future relationships between humans and technology. The best part is that they will be Livestreaming the event from their site. Here’s Read More
Disease often leaves its mark deeply imprinted on the skeleton. Sometimes this can be very difficult to see and will require a highly trained or skilled eye. However, many times, bone remodeling can be clearly Read More
Existing evidence shows that vaccination treatments go back over a thousand years ago. Considering the recent controversies surrounding vaccination policies and parental rights, it is often good to go backwards to understand a practice as Read More
BABAO Online Forum Goes Live Today
Awesome! This is a really great resource!Read More
The Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses: Burial Rituals of the Toraja
“Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their Read More
What Happens to Breast Implants When You're Cremated?!
In this episode of “Ask A Mortician”, Caitlin Doughty discusses what happens to the objects that we use to correct and enhance our bodies when we are cremated. Read More
https://strangeremains.com/2014/08/31/the-case-of-the-sausage-vat-murder-and-the-dissolved-wife/Read More
Not so much… I just reblogged an article about my favorite hominin, and when I was telling a friend about it, she casually asked, “Are you saying hominid or hominin? I want to be sure Read More
