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Notre Dame’s uncovered tombs start to reveal their secrets
- mywacaday 4y agoAmazing that they can determine that somebody was an avid horse rider from their skeleton, do our skeletons undergo changes from sitting at a desk for 40+ hours a week? I really need to use my standing desk more
- saiya-jin 4y agoCertainly they do, ie if you don't compensate with exercise your spine will be in pretty bad shape and I would expect damage to be distinguishable from diseases like scoliosis. I mean pro tennis players get their swinging arm elongated by up to 1cm, so I would expect frequent horse riding leaves marks on pelvis, joints and maybe spine that no other activity does due to specific position and pressures applied.
- analog31 4y ago>>> do our skeletons undergo changes from sitting at a desk for 40+ hours a week? Yes, osteoarthritis in neck vertebrae is common, causing flare-ups of pinched nerves that produce pain radiating down one or both arms. The funny thing is that wrist pain might be mis-interpreted as carpal tunnel. Been there.
- cm2187 4y agoOur species will evolve to have longer fingers that can reach the keyboard's functions keys, and a longer neck to spot predators above the cubicle panels.
- manofthefuture 4y agoThat reminds me of this illustration from 1907: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41682743?mag=when-the-push-button-was-new-people-were-freaked&seq=25 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41682743?mag=when-the-push-butt...
- senortumnus 4y ago*Lamarck tips his wig
- jxramos 4y agoyep, bones are mechanically responsive. Think about bone spurs.
- hourago 4y ago> The dead aristocrat also had a deformation of the skull caused by wearing a headdress or headband as a baby. Interesting details by just looking at a decaying skeleton. I guess that historians can tie this deformation to practices of that time, or even may help to fill in missing knowledge.
- Waterluvian 4y agoIndeed. But it always irks me that they speak with such confidence. There’s inference and then there’s theorycrafting.
- bombcar 4y agoReminds me of the “science based” dinosaur books I had as a child - elaborate descriptions of dinosaurs and what they did based on three bones and wishful thinking.
- verisimi 4y ago"Trust the experts!"
- slfnflctd 4y agoThere has been a ton of speculation presented as fact in science-related reading materials for kids across the board, and I'm not sure how much that's improved (although it has in some places). It seems the thinking often was that we need to keep things simple for children so they'll uptake it more easily. Many educators want to avoid getting bogged down in fuzzy areas like debates about support for theories, or difficult ones like the details of actual research. The unfortunate downside is that the oversimplification of introductory material inevitably leads to a period of frustrating cognitive dissonance for anyone who develops an interest in a subject, as they need to unlearn all the nerfed-to-the-point-of-being-wrong stuff. I suspect those who have multiple & diverse interests are more likely to go through mentally and emotionally devastating experiences of overall disillusionment with humanity as a result.