Anatomy
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30 Weirdly Fascinating Health and Body Facts
The camera doesn’t often linger on all the severed heads in Game of Thrones. But if it did, might we see some sign of awareness—at least for a few seconds? A human head doesn’t lose consciousness until after about four seconds, post-decapitation. That’s resiliency of a kind. And the acid in your stomach? Strong enough […] -
New Exoskeletons Will Harness the Subtle Anatomy of Human Balance
The bones and bodies of the Kenyan women had adjusted to perfectly support the head weight in the most energy efficient manner, aligning in an ideal formation to keep the weight off the muscles.Photograph by Kim Steele / Getty In the 1980s, a bioengineer named Norm Heglund was doing field work in Kenya, hoping to […] -
Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body
From our knees to our eyeballs, our bodies are full of hack solutions. -
The Impossible Physiology of the Free Diver
The amazing underwater athletes are rewriting the science of the body. -
Are Humans the Greatest Things Created by the Human Hand?
What a waste are two thumbs on the space bar. There they sit, nearly flaccid, punctuating the end of each word, awaiting the call to crack stone or to use sharp flakes to incise wood.It is easy to think of other traits as making us human. We talk, use metaphors, empathize, follow fashions, laugh, play politics […]
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Jeepers, Creepers. Where the Heck Did You Get Those Peepers?
Last week, we asked you to pick out human eyes from animal eyes that look similar. It was probably harder than you expected. This week’s eyeball challenge, again courtesy of some great photographs by Suren Manvelyan, might be even harder. Can you tell which very inhuman-looking eyes (bigger images below) belong to which animals? Here’s a […]
