Indeed we do, and it is a handy investigative tool for medical examiners. When determining cause of dath, a broken hyoid is a strong indicator of strangulation.
True, apparently to the point that he invested in the company that makes Lionel trains, IIRC.
A couple of others who apparently got into the hobby in a big way: Roger Daltrey and Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra.
In the “Which real world locales would you use in sci-fi/fantasy?” thread, saucywench mentioned Mono Lake. That started me on a Wikiwalk from Mono Lake to alkali flies to
I had no idea that anything–aside from some bacteria–lived in crude oil, and certainly not that there was a species of fly that spent its whole larval life swimming in oil and/or asphalt.
Correct. Neil Young and David Letterman talk about Lionel Trains:
Hah, that’s what I came in to say. I remember analyzing the skeleton of a woman where the horn of the hyoid was cleanly broken from the main body. And sure enough, she had been strangled.
The guy who invented the Pap smear and proved that it could be used for early cancer detection perfected the technique by practicing on his wife.
Every day.
For over a year.
A lot of remarkable people in her family, past and present.
Wombat shit is so dehydrated it comes out in cubes.
Lighter, weaker coffee blends (like the ‘breakfast blends’) actually contain more caffeine than the darker, stronger brews. Darker brews take longer to roast, thus removing more caffeine. Huh.
Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, invented and patented a specialized wrench.
This may be something I knew in the past and forgot but I just recently learned that Benjamin Franklin originated the definition of the word battery that means something to store electricity. Leyden jars had been invented and were used to store electricity. Franklin grouped the jars together to be used in concert and called it a battery using the military term for artillery working together. Amazing man.
Neil’s son has severe cerebral palsy. Although his love of trains started as a child it became the activity he could do with his son. Neil invented wireless controllers that his son could use to run the trains. He holds several patents.
There are/were two marsupials in which the males also have/had pouches–the water opossum, and the probably-extinct thylacine.
Now that’s what I call love.
I’m confused… We have a number of sesamoid bones such as the patella. I thought the hyoid was one of them too, but it’s not listed in the Wiki article. Can anyone explain the difference?
The poster boy for Aryan soldiers in Nazi Germany was half Jewish. And later sent to a concentration camp.
Properly written in English, many Hindi words end in -a. Properly pronounced, almost none of these words end in -a. For example, the jolly elephant headed god’s name is written Ganesha and pronounced “Ganesh”.
In-n-Out Burgers have red palm trees on white background as part of their motif.
(Example:
Why we're not getting In-N-Out Burger here anytime soon)
Many of their locations, which are predominantly in Southern California, have palm trees surrounding the buildings and parking lots. At many of those locations two of those trees are intentionally crossed to form an “X”, for the best possible reason: it was In-n-Out founder’s homage to his favorite movie- It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
(The “Big W” consisted of four palm trees, the middle two of which were crossed.)
They’re the best burgers in the world, too. Not that it matters.
Sesamoid bones are generally oblong, thus the name (like a sesame seed). The hyoid is shaped like a horseshoe and not considered a sesamoid. I’m sure it develops differently too, but I don’t have my Gray’s Anatomy handy.
ETA: Ah, looked at The Anatomy and Biology of the Human Skeleton by Steele and Bramblett. Sesamoid bones are embedded in tendons and slide across bone. Not the hyoid.
Forensic anthropologists aren’t generally too concerned with most sesamoid bones since their presence is irregular and they’re generally so darned small.
But not arms! Anybody disagrees, gets cuffed in the mouth.
In the early 1920s, James Watson’s father did ornithological fieldwork with Nathan Leopold. Film footage of the expedition was later banned by the state of Michigan because it showed the face of a killer.