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One Fish, Two Fish, Fluorescent-Green, Iron-Toothed Fish
As far as fish go, the pacific lingcod is pretty average. Regular enough for Karly Cohen, a doctoral candidate at the University of...
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Dec 14, 20213 min read
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Animalearn on the Cutting Edge of Alternatives to Dissection
Most high school biology classes require animal dissection as part of their anatomy unit. The procedure is polarizing: some students...
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Nov 30, 20212 min read
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On Jaws, Noses, and Blowholes
Onions and garlic sauteed in the pan. Apple pie, fresh out of the oven. Fresh rain, freshly cut grass, campfires in the summertime. Rose,...
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Nov 9, 20213 min read
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Bringing “The Outside” Into the Classroom in Texas
In a career spanning over twenty years, Patrick Matous has taught just about every science class—AP Biology, AP Chemistry, and AP...
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Nov 2, 20212 min read
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Off to the Best Horse Practices Summit!
Anatomy in Clay® Learning System will soon make its long-anticipated debut at an acclaimed horse conference in Lexington, Kentucky. The...
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Oct 24, 20212 min read
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Cheers to International Anatomy Day
Get out your pens and mark your calendars: October 15 is International Anatomy Day! Though officially recognized only recently (2019),...
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Oct 13, 20212 min read
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Questioning the Chromosome Narrative
Let’s step into our time travel machines and rewind all the way back to biology class in high school. Remember those chromosome charts?...
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Oct 5, 20213 min read
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The Beginning and End of It All
As objects of anatomical study, butts and anuses usually sit at the bottom of the totem pole. Opposable thumbs, bipedalism, the abdominal...
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Sep 28, 20213 min read
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An Unlikely Partnership That Works
Even in death, one is still able to teach. At least that’s the case at the Colorado Learning Center of Human Anatomy, in Longmont,...
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Sep 15, 20214 min read
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Anatomical Wonder: “Daddy Longlegs”
Depending on the type of person you are, you may be either terrified or enamored by those spindly creatures commonly known as “daddy...
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Aug 31, 20213 min read
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Myths About Metabolism
Outside of science or anatomy class, there are a couple ways to speak about metabolism. It usually operates in comparisons of speed and...
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Aug 24, 20212 min read
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Learn It, Do It, Teach It
In the eyes of her parents, Aarika Capra was always a “little scientist” and a “little teacher.” Growing up, it seemed that Capra could...
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Aug 18, 20214 min read
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Osteocytes are the "Stars of the Show"
For paleontologist Yara Haridi, bones are the best. In life, bones protect organs, facilitate movement, and produce red blood cells. In...
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Jul 29, 20213 min read
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A Taste of Jon Zahourek’s Colorful Teaching Style
All right, we admit it: not everyone knows about the Anatomy in Clay® Learning System. Even to students building models in the classroom...
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Jul 20, 20213 min read
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Growing Anatomy in Clay® Success with Chris Davis
In a healthcare education and communications career spanning twenty-five years and multiple countries, Chris Davis thought he had seen it...
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Jul 14, 20213 min read
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Thinking Outside the Brain
“Cogito, ergo sum,” René Descartes famously quipped in 1637. “I think, therefore I am,” became part of a doctrine that came to be known...
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Jul 8, 20213 min read
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Giraffes and Genomes
Can we all, for a moment, stop what we’re doing and appreciate giraffes? To appreciate giraffes, of course, means to appreciate their...
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Jun 16, 20212 min read
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Equine Toes
When a horse lifts its hoof up and scrapes at the ground, repeatedly, something is off. Something is bothering the animal. In pawing the...
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Jun 9, 20212 min read
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First Steps
What is it, precisely, about our anatomy that sets our species apart in the animal kingdom? Opposable thumbs? Big brains, which enable...
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May 19, 20212 min read
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Big Brains, Average Smarts?
We humans tend to pat ourselves on the back for the contents stored within our skulls. Indeed, our big brains and unique intelligence...
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May 12, 20213 min read
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