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Thanks to everyone who’s engaged with yesterday’s apparently trivial question: what does it mean for a vertebra to be “horizontal”? I know Matt has plenty of thoughts to share on this, but before he does I want to clear up a couple of things. This is not about life posture First, and I really should have led with this: the present question has nothing to do with life posture.

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Here’s a bunch of cool stuff that is either available now or happening soon: {.size-large .wp-image-14542 .aligncenter loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“14542” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2017/11/28/promo-pandemonium-prehistoric-times-mark-hallett-calendar-public-talks-and-norwescon-41/pt-cover-issue-123-fall-2017/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/pt-cover-issue-123-fall-2017.jpg” orig-size=“1200,1556” comments-opened=“1”

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