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Person holding a taxidermized flying squirrel with legs extended. Caption: As you know, flying squirrels don't fly, they glide.

Illustration of a skeleton. Arrows indicate the front right toe and back left heel. Caption: Their elongated heel bone and Achilles tendon.

Drawer containing thin, preserved cross sections of the human body. Caption: looking into the body, like you would an x-ray.

Platypus with a duck-like snout, webbed feet, and a furry body. Caption: They're the craziest things I've seen in my life.

Still image from: The Circulatory System for Kids

Face painted white with orange and yellow spots peers at us from the edge of the frame with a splotchy gray backdrop. Text reads, "Episode One: The Human Microbiome."

Still image from: The Electric Sheep: The Electric Pulse of Art--Creation and Recreation in the Brain (Spanish)

Outline of a person with the hypothalamus in their brain highlighted. 98.6 degrees. Caption: The hypothalamus monitors the temperature inside the body

Slide shows light shining in a square on a black backdrop. Text reads, "The Five Senses."

Cartoon heart with a worried face floats in front of a blue backdrop. Text reads, "The Human Heart."

Color illustration of the human cardiovascular system, showing the heart, arteries, and veins in the chest area.

Still image from: The Hunt: The Hardest Challenge

People sitting at a table. Caption: (narrator) We may only eat three times a day,

Closeup of the top view of the human brain. Caption: Many of the body's mysteries lie in the brain,

Microscopic view of a spherical cell in other structures. Caption: This means a lot of new growth as cells divide and redivide

A skeletal ribcage with lungs inside. Caption: and the air rushes in.

Diagram of a human head with the path from the nostril to the sinuses highlighted. Caption: To get the full benefit of the smell,

Closeup of the human eye. Caption: tell us how near or far something is.

Human body with the liver shown in the right corner of the abdomen. Caption: An organ like the liver is like an industrial plant

An orange tunnel. Caption: leading air down towards an internal harbor,

Diagram of the circulatory system in the torso of a human. Caption: The body's source of pressure is the heart

Person sleeping. Caption: there's a hormone at work to control his metabolic rate,

Child at the top of an escalator. Caption: We don't suddenly become adults overnight,

Microscopic view of cells. Caption: in the fluid that bathes the cells.

Cartoon of a character gesturing to a complex diagram of machinery. Caption: we believe in breaking things down.

Magic school bus floating in the air while talking to a child in bed. Caption: And to do that they will go straight to the troubled zone--

People wrapped in cloth holding walking sticks, herding a large herd of bovine. Caption: people started domesticating animals for food,

Still image from: The Respiratory System for Kids

A sunflower is labeled, Dormancy, to sleep, and, Tropism, to turn.

Person about to look into the eye pieces of a microscope. Caption: how hormones control the genome,

Animation of red blood cells in a blood vessel. Caption: Red blood cells are eight picometers,

Trace is standing in front of a book shelf. Caption: Also, how does it adjust that temperature once it knows it.

A mouse nibbles the food particle holding it in its claws. Caption: The nanoparticles gave the mouse the ability to see infrared.

Slideshows light coming through gray shadows in the background of text that reads, Vaping and Viruses: Your Lungs, Your Life."

Computer-generated image of a brain with a portion in the middle highlighted green. Text on image reads, "Vaping, Nicotine, and the Developing Brain."

People walking on a dirt path. Buildings with corrugated metal line the road. Caption: The rotavirus is a tiny virus born in water.

Microscopic view of small, tube-like structures. Caption: Two kinds of cells make up the living world:

Still image from: Vitamins and Minerals for Kids

A group of people inspecting a waterbody.

Still image from: What Is a Vertebrate?

Still image from: What Is an Arthropod?

Magnified view of cells. Caption: to allow liver cells to grow into functional livers.

We see a screen displaying rows of DNA sequencing, represented in patterns of waves, numbers, and letters.

Diagram of human upper body with heart, lungs, and circulatory system visible. Caption: such as the respiratory system

People sitting in a cafeteria eating. Sign on the wall says, "Fire Safety" Caption: It helps you live a normal life without having to worry