New Ligament Discovered In the Human Knee

sciencedaily ^ | Nov. 5, 2013

[Rodamala]

I opted in Engineering school for a traditional mechanical drafting class as opposed to the "So you think you wanna be a Mechanical Engieer" Freshman Fundamentals of Engineering Design class. None of what was taught in the class was new to me, as I had hand drafting in GRADE SCHOOL Industrial Arts class... and plenty of experience with geometric methods for drawing.

The biggest takeaway from the class was the inability of about 40% of the class to properly reckon Front, Top, Side Orthographic projections to an Isometric. It was disturbing to consider that these people were going to be the Professional Engineers of the future.

One thing that is NOT misogyny here AT ALL... of that 40% of the class that couldn't "get it", all of the females in the class were in that grouping. Females don't have the spatial association accuity that males do... but stating such in college these days would be grounds for accusation of a hate crime and immediate, unappealable suspension.

[al baby]

Bet that would be pretty tasty with some honey BBq sauce

[Revolting cat!]

YTour FR sweetheart.

[JoeProBono]

[CodeToad]

I was thinking the same thing. How can any physical item of that size have possibly escaped notice until now?

[Buckeye McFrog]

From the look of her knees I’d have to say Catherine Zeta-Jones weeds her own garden and scrubs her own bathtub.

Have to say I respect her for that.

[GeronL]

you respect her for something you might be imagining?

[coincheck]

So, now we know that there is a ALL (AnteroLateral Ligament), then is stands to reason that there is an AML (AnteroMedial Ligament) to increase the stability of the knee, yes?

[raybbr]

Ping

[Swordmaker]

How the hell could that be overlooked for all these years...?

I wonder why, in all these years of futzing around in people's knees, no one has noticed this ligament before? Did no medical student, while working on his cadaver in anatomy lab, think to ask the professor "Hey, Professor, what's this thing? It's not in my Gray's Anatomy!"

[Swordmaker]

Very common in Republican politicians... weak kneed...

Well, the article DID say that 97% of human knees had the ALL . . perhaps you're onto something here. We should require the leadership of the RNC and the Senate GOP to have a MRI of their knees before they get appointed to those positions to assure they aren't in the 3% without an ALL. The ones we have now must lack that ligament.