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At the heart of Jon Zahourek’s career and his Anatomy in Clay® Learning System sculptures-turned-models, there lies a passion for...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
May 4, 20201 min read
Mammalian Pronation
Behold the cynodont. (Sounds like: sign-uh-daunt.) Cynodonts gave rise to all living mammals about 250 million years ago. Or so. These...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
May 4, 20201 min read
Brachiating Scapulae
This video from 1987 is fun to watch just to see how Jon Zahourek thinks—and observes. In less than a minute, he covers so much ground....
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
May 4, 20201 min read
Tunicate
Before the fish was the tunicate—the marine invertebrate. The inner layer of the tunicate is a tube that moves water (and nutrients) in...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
May 1, 20202 min read
Equine Patella: Gliding Vs. Resting Zones
This video (from 1989) is straightforward (and insightful) there’s not a whole lot more to say beyond Jon Zahourek’s clear demonstration...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Apr 28, 20202 min read
We’re Off to the Horse Summit!
This just in: Jon Zahourek will be bringing his expertise and equine skeletons to Lexington, Kentucky—better known as the heart of horse...
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Apr 21, 20203 min read
Spanning the Globe VI
Once again, it’s time for another round-up of all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Dinosaur Tail This one got a lot of...
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Apr 20, 20201 min read
Circulation
Keep moving! Good blood circulation is vital to health. And movement helps move blood. The heart gets a lot of the credit for...
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Apr 20, 20201 min read
Appropriate Anatomical Knowledge
One thing Jon Zahourek routinely emphasizes is that a model of human anatomy is always close at hand. Yourself. It’s always there as a...
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Apr 14, 20202 min read
Enthusiasm For Details
Isn’t it amazing that we organisms—humans, dogs, bugs, horses, and nearly all others—follow a pattern of development, true to course,...
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Apr 13, 20201 min read
Athletes and the Expression of Ligaments
Limber. For an athlete, it’s an ideal state—right? Athletes need to limber up before a competition. But there’s a fine line between being...
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Apr 13, 20201 min read
Body Is A Weaving
Pulp. Goo. When he teaches, Jon Zahourek keeps it real. His verbiage swings from relatable imagery to the technical language of science....
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Apr 3, 20201 min read
Thoracic Rotation
The human thorax rotates. As bipeds, this is especially helpful when we run. The rotation helps moves our hips. One major key to all...
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Apr 2, 20201 min read
Metamerism
We can think of no better example of Jon Zahourek’s trademark excitement for all things anatomical than the last two seconds of this...
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Apr 2, 20201 min read
Bone Growth
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...
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Mar 30, 20203 min read
Nuchal Ligament
We can’t recommend a recent episode of the Radiolab podcast—Man Against Horse—highly enough. It includes: · Pigs on a treadmill · Humans...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Mar 24, 20201 min read
Tibiotalar Joint – Range of Motion Humans vs. Horse
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...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Mar 23, 20201 min read
Brachiators - Arm Travelers
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...
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