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Dr. George Russell Are you sitting down? You are, aren’t you? Well, sitting may not be good for you. Dr. Russell, must you ruin everything? Hear me out. A long time ago – long before I was around to ruin everything – and before we evolved from four legs to two, our spines were parallel […]

It’s easy to think of contemporary scientific anatomy as the “real” anatomy. We have been acting on the assumption that medical/scientific understandings of the human are equivalent to reality, although we know very well that such a belief is not entirely true. What’s true is that there are many anatomies, and each of them describes […]

Here’s a fun fact to know and tell your friends: Like all the other animals with legs, you were born knowing how to walk – it’s in your DNA. What you had to learn is how to balance on two legs. In that sense, you are more like dancing bears at the circus (luckily, without being chained and abused) than you might care to admit. One way or another, your circus act must go on for the rest of your life, so you’d best keep up your technique. Here are some strategies: