Saturday, 15 June 2019

How modern life is transforming the human skeleton

quote [ From the emergence of a spiky growth at the back of some people’s skulls to the enigmatic finding that our elbows are getting narrower, our bones are changing in surprising ways ]

I have a crush on your skeleton
[SFW] [science & technology] [+4 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT]

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Franger Sanger said @ 9:21am GMT on 15th Jun [Score:1 Funsightful]
Fascinating. I'm a spikehead too, only I've never owned a phone and grew mine by reading thousands of books. I wonder if phone zombies have corresponding massive interphalangeal joints on their thumbs? Please respond, preferably with a "sent from my iPhone" signature.

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Sent from Canto XIII of Purgatorio, Book 2 of Dante's Divine Comedy (wot I'm currently reading) in which the envious have their eyes sewn closed with wires, an apt metaphor amirite?
Paracetamol said @ 8:19am GMT on 15th Jun
As an owner of that spike, that was some relevation. This is a very good read, folks!
Ankylosaur said @ 6:11pm GMT on 21st Jun
Turns out the bone spike story is bullshit.

Debunked: The absurd story about smartphones causing kids to sprout horns
Perhaps the most striking problems are that the study makes no mention of horns and does not include any data whatsoever on mobile devices usage by its participants who, according to the Post, are growing alleged horns. Also troubling is that the study authors don't report much of the data, and some of the results blatantly conflict with each other.

Last, it appears that the study’s lead author—David Shahar, a chiropractor and biomechanics researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland—has a financial incentive to convince people that their modern lifestyles are deforming their skeletons; Shahar goes by the name Dr. Posture online and has developed devices and techniques to prevent such posture problems. At the time of writing this, the Dr. Posture Thoracic Pillow was currently unavailable on Amazon, though.

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