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Bones and All: A (Pre)History of Death & Display in “28 Years Later”

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick

Please note that this blog post has some slight spoilers for Danny Boyle’s 2025 film 28 Years Later. Read ahead at your own risk! Spike, the film’s protagonist, adds a skull to the top of the Bone Temple. In the final act of 28 Years Later, the audience is introduced to Ralph Fiennes’...

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The (Entirely Inaccurate, Completely Nonsensical) Plastic Skeleton Wars Continue

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick

Let’s be real – you know exactly what this blog post is about. I’ve been writing about these cursed plastic objects for years now. After doing an overview of the worst iterations of animal skeleton decorations in 2017, an investigation as to why they look as horribly and inaccurately as they...

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In focus: Streetlamps, cranes and the internal architecture of the human femur

John of the Freezers

We are back after a break! And we have a nice series of posts planned already from numerous guest writers! To kick things off, let’s get hip to bone structure. This week’s post is from Diogo M. Geraldes, PhD CEng MIMechE MEng; a biomedical engineer in London. If you would like to write for Anatomy...

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