The case of the missing buttocks – it’s not all mum bum
Any casual observer, seated on a park bench, watching people walk by, might begin to ask: where did all the buttocks go? Why are our cabooses so often so flat? It seems that the gluteus muscles, the biggest in the human body, have gone into hiding. They’re the source of our forward propulsion in walking and upward […]
Could Spinefulness help put weight in your bones?
One of her “secrets of adulthood” goes like this: what you do every day is more important than what you do once in a while. It makes sense. Anyone who plays a musical instrument has learned that 15 minutes of practice every day is more effective than an hour of practice just before your lesson. […]
Stone Columns and Bone Columns
At that moment, all my swirling thoughts about architectural columns and spinal columns suddenly gelled. So far, I had learned that columns in the ancient world are a stack of flat sections that taper towards the top. They sit on a base, and end in a capital – from the Latin, meaning “little head.” That’s […]