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What transforms the sandwich you ate for lunch into energy for your entire body? No, not a magic spell; it's…your digestive system! That system, working in tandem with your urinary tract, "takes out the trash," too. Join the Standard Deviants on a guided tour of the body's amazing food processor.
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"Understand the human body as never before, from the smallest components of a cell to complex body systems. Explore human anatomy in incredible detail and clarity through virtually life-size 3-D illustrations and scans. Discover how the body works, how it changes from infancy to old age, and what can go wrong and why"--Cover, P. [4]
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Giants are not just the stuff of myth and legend; they are real people, and their condition is caused by a medical disorder that can now be treated. John Paul Ofwono of Uganda is currently the tallest man in the world. Though that makes him a celebrity in his country, he urgently needs treatment for acromegaly, the condition that now threatens his life. Acromegaly is caused by a disorder of the pituitary gland that causes it to produce excessive amounts...
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We can't control if we'll die, but we can "occupy death," in the words of Dr. Peter Saul. In this TEDTalk, he calls on us to make clear our preferences for end-of-life care - and suggests two questions for starting the conversation. Over the past 35 years, Saul has been intimately involved in the dying process of more than 4,000 patients and is passionate about improving the ways we die.
67) Body Building
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Will replacing a body part be as easy as replacing a light bulb some day? In Body Building, a part of the PBS Scientific American Frontiers series, host Alan Alda journeys behind the scenes with MIT's Robert Langer for a remarkable window into the current scientific advances in repair and replacement of damaged human body parts. The program follows scientists and researchers as they experiment with the growth of liver, heart, and eye tissue and reveal...
68) Body Fantastic
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The Body Fantastic is a one-hour special that celebrates the most amazing machine on earth—the human body. The program will feature individuals who exemplify the highest achievement in the body's abilities. Through their profiles, interviews with physiologists and medical experts, and graphics showing how the internal body works, we will learn amazing facts about the body we inhabit, how to keep it functioning at peak capacity, and what feats we...
69) All Spun Out
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Exploring how humans find balance. From looking at the fluids in the inner ear, to using vision to keep balance, and how ballerinas use spotting to stay balanced when they spin.
70) Fan-Tastic
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The body cools down by releasing heat and sweat creating a warm aura around your body. The way the fan cools the body is to create wind-chill and lower the skin temperature of the body. The room temperature never changes.
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Approximately 12,000 babies are born annually in the United States with a hearing impairment. With impressive advancements in technology, cochlear implants are giving these children the ability to hear. A cochlear implant is a small, complex electronic device that can provide the sense of hearing to patients who are profoundly deaf or are severely hard of hearing. The cochlear implant helps patients hear by using electrodes that stimulate the remaining...
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Anthropologists once emphasized "man the hunter" as the driving force in human evolution, but now they believe it's the gathering of vegetables by women that enabled our greatest leaps. In this program, Dr. Alice Roberts explains how our ancestors' search for food has driven the way we look and behave today, from the shape of our face to relationships and gender roles. Visiting hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, she also investigates what type of diet...
74) Brains
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Drawing on research into social politics among chimpanzees, the cognitive development of children, and the ancient tools that have been found littered across the Rift Valley, in this program Dr. Alice Roberts explores how Homo sapiens developed such large brains - and asks why we are the only species of our kind left on the planet today. She also discusses how caring for large-brained offspring has shaped civilization, and the evolutionary adaptation...
75) Power up
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"An exploration of the relationship between the human body and all the energy that it takes to make it go"--Provided by publisher.
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Blood is a vitally important part of the body. It provides the oxygen our organs need to survive, carries platelets that clot when we cut ourselves, and prevents us from getting infections. But it is also immensely complex. In this episode, we meet researchers investigating the effects of COVID-19 on platelets' ability to clot and discuss the impact of Long COVID.And while we use animal blood in products such as blood pudding or as a protein source...
77) On Land
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New scientific imaging technologies now allow scientists to trace the history of how the human body has developed like never before. The genealogy of our organs shows that we share a long history with other species on the planet. This program examines the first major chapters of our evolution from the time that our ancestors emerged from the ocean and began living on land. The organs that allow us to hear, think, and manipulate objects all originated...
78) Respiration
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In order to live, grow, and reproduce, all living things need energy obtained from oxygen. From the simplest of cells to the largest of animals, energy is generated from oxygen in a process called respiration, or breathing. Learn about the definition and characteristics of aerobic respiration, the respiratory organs, the process of photosynthesis in plants, different organisms and their respiratory processes, human respiration, lungs and other organs...
79) Bones
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In this program, Dr. Alice Roberts charts the advance from Australopithecus to Homo erectus and beyond to demonstrate what the modern skeleton reveals about human evolution. Examining the traits of chimps and an intriguing Sahelanthropus hominid fossil, she also discusses the role of bipedalism in the emergence of Homo sapiens. Along the way, viewers learn what running shoes to wear, the purpose of armpit hair, and whether back pain is an inevitable...