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A visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new a
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Gossamer 9/27/09 The oldest spider web on record has been found encased in amber found on an East Sussex beach in the U.K. Scientists at the University of Wyoming have determined exactly what makes cobwebs so sticky. And about my Gossamer post, my si...
Femur scepter
It has long been suspected - from sculptures like the one above - that the men of the Zapotec culture (500 B.C.-1,000 A.D.) carried human femurs as status symbols. The earlier excavation of a tomb containing 9 skeletons missing only their femurs len...
Follow-ups
Follow-ups Kent congratulated me on finding the speed-cooking video in my last set of follow-ups (see Autotomy). He writes, "I experienced tiny bits of that during several trips to Singapore. I had heard of the fried fish with mouth still moving, but...
Whales, articulated and dismantled
The Museum of Osteology has not yet opened to the public, but if you click on the photo you can watch a 28-day time-lapse video of the installation of the humpback whale skeleton. And while we're on the subject of whales, here are some stories - old...
