Go check your closet

Yesterday had to do with researching violence and other means of inducing death within a story (but inducing it in achingly researched, believable fashion!). After a character has been dead for some time, or there’s someone prowling through a home with bunch of closets, eventually you’re going to come across one of these…

Skeletons

The knee bone is connected to the neck bone, and all that blather aside, if you really want to know what hoo-ha is attached to the whatsit over there, then this is the medically correct site for you. Maybe you’ve got some forensic evidence you have to hash out in a murder mystery, or someone snatched up a bone to use as a weapon, and they want to take a moment to figure out exactly which bone they are going to use to bash this fellow’s skull in with. These are important details.

While you’re busy marveling over the structure of what lies beneath our skin, here’s an interesting article on why a scientist believes in God, and why he finds no conflict between his spiritual and scientific perspectives on life. Dr. Francis Collins is head of the Human Genome Project, by the by, and has published several books including The Language of God and Coming to Peace With Science.

And if you for some reason dislike any of my posts over the past few days (I know I can wax morbid at times), then here are a few selected natural and Divine disasters you can summon down upon my blog. Wreak whatever havoc you wish, just so long as you enjoy it.

(oh, and I promised to give credit to Mir for alerting me to this awesome destructive link)

Fire away!

The Lord doth smite me!

And you didn’t believe me when I said I was abducted and probed.

Bombs away!

I see that smile.