Hang around here long enough and you’re going to hear one word quite a bit. System. In this clip from 1992, Anatomy in Clay® Learning...

The human thorax rotates. As bipeds, this is especially helpful when we run. The rotation helps moves our hips. One major key to all...

We can think of no better example of Jon Zahourek’s trademark excitement for all things anatomical than the last two seconds of this...

It doesn’t take much for us to dive into the history of a word. This video clip of Jon Zahourek poking around in the medullary cavity of...

We can’t recommend a recent episode of the Radiolab podcast—Man Against Horse—highly enough. It includes: · Pigs on a treadmill · Humans...

Stop and think of all the joints in the human body. For that matter, any mammal. One place to study form and function is in how one bone...

We all have our favorite anatomical words. Just for the way it sounds, brachiator is one of ours. Brake—eee—ay—tor. It rolls off the...

Don’t judge the size or power of a muscle by the shape of its attachment. It’s a simple point that’s worth remembering. As Jon Zahourek...

The anxiety over the spread of COVID-19 (a.k.a. coronavirus) in the early months of 2020 makes one thing abundantly clear: we rely on a...

Who doesn’t love the title of this book? The Body—A Guide for Occupants. Of course, we do. It fits right in with what Jon Zahourek has...

We are all about hands-on learning. We hope that’s obvious. For too long, our public education system relegated “technical” education to...

By Jon Zahourek Vertebrate Anatomy is a System of Subsystems The key to vertebrate movement is the axial subsystem. If you own a...

By Jon Zahourek We vertebrates depend on our anatomy to be alive. Once our ancestral fish developed jaws and fins, our anatomy can be...

“How many legs on a horse?” It’s a question Jon Zahourek asks when he wants students to ponder the many remarkable things about...

Australia is on ablaze. The ice caps are melting. Glaciers are disappearing. Sea temperatures are rising. Climate change is for real. No...

Editor’s note: For the first time this fall, teachers and students at Piqua High School in Ohio used the Anatomy in Clay® Learning...

Once again, it’s time for another round-up of all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Leonardo da Vinci You can’t really say...

If you spend any time around an Anatomy in Clay® workshop, class, or professional development of any kind, you know we love our...

Face it. When you hear the word ‘muscle,’ you get an image in your head of something obvious, something major, something capable of power...

Let’s take a pause from studying how we’re all put together on the inside and marvel at the capability of the human body as a whole. In...