6/16/10
Murder
Human male skull with large caliber bullet wound to head. European male, 25 years of age, modern specimen, North America. Cast by us from an original skull that is in a North American medical school forensic osteology teaching collection. The appearance of projectile damage to bone is crucial to the differentiation of "entrance" and "exit" wounds. Typically, as a projectile like a bullet passes through a plate of bone (like that of the neurocranium), fragments of the bone follow. As such, there is a characteristic beveling (or open fanning) of the bone in the direction of projectile motion. Although not adequately visualized on the entrance wound of this specimen (without removing the calvarium), this phenomenon is beautifully illustrated in the exit wound of the left lateral occipital bone. Note also the radiating simple linear fracture which progresses obliquely and laterally away from the exit wound. Interestingly, the left orbital plate is not intact. This is important to recognize and consider for two reasons. Firstly, damage to bones in this region may be due to direct contact with the bullet, or the forces of gases expelled from the muzzle of a gun in hard contact with the head. Secondly, it may not be due to these factors at all, and may represent the violent secondary contact of the frontal lobes of the brain, thrust against this bony ridge when the brain is expanded and compressed by forces created with the rapid passage of a projectile through brain tissue. Our Bone Clones® forensic skull captures all the osteological and forensic details of the original.
For an analysis report (PDF format), a copy of which will be sent with the purchase of this specimen, go to BC-152-Report. Should you have questions or comments regarding the report, please contact us at reports@boneclones.com.
Human Male Skull with a 32-caliber Gunshot Wound
6/10/10
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If art was defined simply by the ability to draw, then my inkjet printer would be a greater artist than
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
Arthur Herzog
our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
N. Hill
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure.
After that he must not feel under any constraint.
Henri Matisse
For the creative soul cannot survive on past accomplishments, and so each day the artist must go forth
and face his fears and embrace the unknown.
Robert Rosenstein
If art was defined simply by the ability to draw, then my inkjet printer would be a greater artist than
Michelangelo
~Curtis Verdun
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
He who wants milk should not sit himself in the middle of a pasture waiting for a cow to back up to him.
Anon
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything
else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bach
Live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds.
Ray Bradbury
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
Louise Bourgeois
If art was defined simply by the ability to draw, then my inkjet printer would be a greater artist than
Michelangelo.
Curtis Verdun
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
Arthur Herzog
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.
Peter Drucker
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all the answers – only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
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Dale Carnegie
Master yourself, then you can master your world. Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate.
James Allen
Joseph Campbell
No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it
Jean de La Bruyer
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
Raoul Dufy
A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambition.
Marcus Aurelius
Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
A dream without a plan is just a dream. A dream with a plan may become a reality.
Hap Hagood
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.
Peter Drucker
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all the answers – only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
Grace Hartigan
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Master yourself, then you can master your world. Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate.
James Allen
6/8/10
John Kasaona: How poachers became caretakers | Video on TED.com
John Kasaona: How poachers became caretakers | Video on TED.com
John Kasaona is a leader in the drive to reinvent conservation in Namibia.
As the assistant director for the Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC) , Kasaona works on ways to improve the lives of rural people in Namibia by involving them in the management of the lands they live on -- and the species that live there with them.
Essentially, it's about restoring the balance of land and people to that of pre-colonial times, and allowing the people with the most interest in the survival of their environment to have control of it.
His work was featured in the recent film Milking the Rhino.
John Kasaona is a leader in the drive to reinvent conservation in Namibia.
As the assistant director for the Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC) , Kasaona works on ways to improve the lives of rural people in Namibia by involving them in the management of the lands they live on -- and the species that live there with them.
Essentially, it's about restoring the balance of land and people to that of pre-colonial times, and allowing the people with the most interest in the survival of their environment to have control of it.
His work was featured in the recent film Milking the Rhino.
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