This makes me very happy. Do love the gas lights in and around Covent Garden, off Charing Cross Road, Parliament and surrounding streets, plus Birdcage Walk and Horse Guards.
Anyone got any idea what this bone is?
Found on the beach at cuckmere, the joints are 90 degrees out not 180 and one side is kind of barbed. It’s around 12cm long.
penis bone?
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Looks like a radius, probably from an animal or a human with very short arms.
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Ulna (one of the wing bones) of a herring-gull sized bird. The barbs are anchor points for the main flight feathers.
A penis bone (baculum) is present in many cetaceans and pinnipeds, but for kind-of obvious reasons is only articulated at-all at one end, and then crudely.
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Fuck, I love this place 
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Nice that’s the one and explains the joints 90 degrees out and not 180 like a leg.
It’s gone in the bone cupboard next to the owl pellet bones 
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2 spuki 4 me
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A bit big for that?
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The size and heart-shaped disc facet tells you its bovid, the tall spinous process tells you its thoracic. Statistically and preservationally it’s going to be domestic cattle. (Presumed) Lack of cut marks would sugges it wasn’t slaughtered and butchered, so was probably killed and buried due to disease, then ploughed-up by modern deep ploughing.
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Well it was a cow, but the field was called Tsavo. A 3 year drought had decimated the herds., I was 6 years old. For scale:
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Marketing bullshit leads me to expect the worst.
The hope is that once the deal is through, a new “super scale” logistics platform will have been created, Yodel said in a statement on Tuesday.
Looks like it is the same company that bought Tuffnells, we used them to deliver networking/comms stuff years ago and they were very good.
Mahnoor, who is a member of Mensa, will be focussed on gaining a place at Oxford University or Imperial College.
She is hoping to train as a doctor and focus her studies on the brain.
I hope she does see it through, my cousin has an IQ of 160 and got a scholarship to Oxford. He spent around 15 years there doing numerous PhDs in maths and physics. Was touted as being the next Stephen Hawking.
He now works as a piano tuner and volunteers for the Salvation Army 
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Glad I hedged my bet with ‘bovid’… Explains the red patination 
In Britain it would almost certainly have come from somewhere the NRS underlies the fields - aubergine and pink bits:
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Familiar story with a lot of brainiacs. They get the processing power on one hand, but…
As long as he’s happy. Sincerely. Life’s too short to put-up with academia’s hyperautistic BS for an entire working lifetime.
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I do as well, just would have been nice if he’d put it to good use.
His dad died quite suddenly when he was at college and his mum a few years later. My parents paid for the funeral as his mum didn’t work and it turns out his dad had no insurance or savings 
, then gave him a lot of money to help with Uni and also to his mum so he didn’t have to worry about her too much.
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