It’s back to school time and I thought it would be great to kick off the year with some fun facts about human bones. Let’s jump right in!   Human adult skeletons are made up of about 206 bones. Babies are born with about 300 bones that began to fuse and harden together at certain suture and joint points as the baby grows into an adult. The longest bone in the body is the femur (thigh bone). It’s also the strongest. The smallest bone in the body is the stapes, or stirrups, in the middle ear. It is often very difficult to recover in situ.   The only bone not connected to (articulate with) anothe ..read more

This is part three (final) of the 2019 Black History Month series on two important sites- the African Burial Grounds in NYC and a tiny island called St. Helena. Sorry, it was delayed, but Black History need not be confined to a single month anyway.   The northern regions of the United States were long viewed and talked about as the cradle of hope and freedom for Africans in America who had been enslaved in the South. The North versus the South. The North is often written about as this place where education, philosophy, and moral goodness prevailed. While the South was full of hypocritical reli ..read more