Almost every bone in the body is connected to other bones. It meets them at joints, it is held by ligaments running bone to bone, and its position is fixed…
The common description is that a scab is blood that has dried, and that is close enough to be misleading. If you leave a drop of blood on a table…
The thing has a formal description in the research literature, which translates roughly as short-lived abdominal pain related to exercise. The word stitch is the one everybody actually uses.
The…
The pupil is not a part. It is a hole, and the only reason it looks like a black disc is that almost nothing comes back out of it.
Light…
The usual assumption is that phantom sensations are an unusual complication affecting a minority. The figures run the other way. The great majority of people who lose a limb as…
It watched you first, and it picked you on purpose. Here are eleven.
1. There Is No Such Bird as a Seagull
The word covers several dozen distinct species with…