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There’s a great book I can’t recall the name of that puts forth the notion that we commonly make the mistake of modeling the human body as a compressive structu
by whiddershins 7y ago
There’s a great book I can’t recall the name of that puts forth the notion that we commonly make the mistake of modeling the human body as a compressive structure, when it is just as much or more a tensegretic structure.
We aren’t piled bone on bone like a concrete block house.
Fascinating idea.
- twic 7y agoI hadn't heard that applied at the level of the body, that's interesting! Back when i was a cell biologist, i was very excited to read an argument that cells had tensegral structure: https://jcs.biologists.org/content/116/7/1157 https://jcs.biologists.org/content/116/7/1157