{"id":830,"date":"2025-07-30T20:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home-ed-in-a-shed.blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2025-07-30T20:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:31:25","slug":"all-dem-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home-ed-in-a-shed.blog\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"All dem bones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey Blog! This week, I\u2019ll be discussing bones!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until last month, I had never broken a bone. Then I failed to catch a cricket ball properly, and managed to break a finger. Three trips to the hospital later and five weeks in to wearing a splint, I can tell you what I know about bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are 206 bones in the average adult human body. This includes everything from the femur, the thick thigh bone, to the miniscule ear bone which conducts vibrations down the ear canal so you can hear things. Eh? Babies have a few more, as to fit through the mother\u2019s pelvis, their bony bits need to squash slightly smaller \u2013 so they are made with more bones, which later fuse. If you\u2019ve ever seen a skull, the places the skull fuses are those little wiggly lines on the back of the head. Some bones aren\u2019t even bone; cartilage \u2013 a rubbery bone-like stuff that forms your nose, covers your joints, and makes up shark \u201cskeletons\u201d \u2013 is used in place of bone in some parts of babies, and ossifies (turns to bone) later. Note \u2013 cartilage is not to be confused with keratin, which makes pangolin scales, and, less excitingly, your toenails. Nor is it to be confused with Carthage, which was a city beaten by Rome in the Punic Wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humans are vertebrates, as are all mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish: we have a central spine, which holds the most important part of our nervous system, supports the body, and provides a base for the rest of our skeleton to be built off. If you are speaking to a human, you can\u2019t accuse somebody of having no backbone, because all vertebrates have one. However, the spine, while perhaps the longest chain of bones in the body, does not hold the most bones. A quarter of those 206 are in the hands and feet \u2013 including phalanges (the finger bits), metacarpals (the back of the palm bit), tarsals (the wrist bit), and the very end of the arm bones, the radius and diameter. Sorry, the radius and ulna. I\u2019ve got maths on the brain. I broke the last end bone on my left ring finger, at the joint, making it a fractured distal interphalangeal joint, commonly known as a mallet finger, probably because it\u2019s easily done if you hit your finger with a mallet. For those who haven\u2019t broken a bone, it hurts. 0 stars, do not recommend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/home-ed-in-a-shed.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_20250627_091934.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-831\" style=\"width:392px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The X-ray of my finger. Note the chip of the top. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, what if a group of graverobbers\/archaeologists\/obsessive fans of Home Ed in a Shed (delete as appropriate) found my skeleton after I\u2019ve died? What clues as to my life could they deduce? Firstly, I have an eyebrow ridge and square-ended chin, which indicates a male, and I have a narrow notch in my pelvis, also suggesting a male (both correct). I have a curious line near my right temple where there is no bone \u2013 I have no idea what this signifies. The bones are long, and (so far) only one has any sign of a break, implying a tall build and little risk of excessive strain in my occupation. I would suspect reasonably average tendon attachments, so medium strength; definitely more strongly pronounced in the legs than the arms. Powerful tendons in my fingers, possibly signifying a pianist (correct); and hopefully not too much wear on the joints. Perhaps a little less strong than they could be, indicating a dislike of milk, but still strong, indicating a liking for cheese (both correct). The rest they would have to piece together from my grave goods \u2013 an item from every period in history should confuse the experts \u2013 and maybe even this blog. 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