Body & Brain

21 interactive videos. Watch each one, then try the idea live. Free, no account.

Your Amazing Heart preview

Your Amazing Heart

Two pumps in one. 4 chambers, 4 valves, 100,000 beats a day. Never naps.

How You Breathe preview

How You Breathe

Your lungs don't suck — the diaphragm does. Air pressure does the rest.

How Food Becomes You preview

How Food Becomes You

A 9-meter disassembly line that turns lunch into bones, blood, and brain cells.

How Your Ears Hear preview

How Your Ears Hear

Air vibration → eardrum → 3 tiny bones → fluid → hair cells → brain. A Rube Goldberg machine.

Meet Your Neuron preview

Meet Your Neuron

86 billion tiny trees in your head, talking to each other. That's you.

Germs vs Viruses preview

Germs vs Viruses

Bacteria are alive. Viruses aren't really. Your immune system fights both differently.

Your Skeleton preview

Your Skeleton

206 bones. Not dead. Living tissue rebuilding itself, making blood, and fixing breaks.

Muscles Only Pull preview

Muscles Only Pull

Every push you make is a pull from the opposite muscle. We have antagonistic pairs.

Your Blood's Army preview

Your Blood's Army

Liquid armor + oxygen taxi + emergency repair crew. The 4 components of blood.

Your Skin Shield preview

Your Skin Shield

Your largest organ. 3 layers. Sensors, sweat glands, blood vessels. Replaces itself monthly.

How Your Tongue Tastes preview

How Your Tongue Tastes

Five tastes, not four — and the tongue map is a myth. Most of 'taste' is actually smell.

How Your Nose Smells preview

How Your Nose Smells

Lock-and-key chemistry: ~400 receptors + 1 trillion patterns. Direct line to memory.

How You Grow preview

How You Grow

Cells double. Bones stretch from growth plates. Hormones drive it. Sleep makes it happen.

How Your Skin Feels preview

How Your Skin Feels

Touch isn't one sense — it's five. Different sensors for pressure, vibration, stretch, temp, pain.

How Memory Works preview

How Memory Works

Neurons that fire together wire together. Each recall actually rewrites the memory.

How You Learn Things preview

How You Learn Things

Practice physically rewires your brain. Myelin makes signals 100× faster. Sleep locks it in.

Why You Need Sleep preview

Why You Need Sleep

Brain takes out the trash. Memories move to long-term storage. Body heals. Skip it = pay later.

Why Vegetables Help preview

Why Vegetables Help

Vitamins + minerals + fiber + plant chemicals. The raw materials your body literally cannot make.

Dreams & Imagination preview

Dreams & Imagination

REM sleep + judge offline + random firing = the nighttime sandbox where anything goes.

Emotions in the Brain preview

Emotions in the Brain

Feelings aren't mystical. Specific regions + chemicals = your full emotional palette.

Your Body Clock preview

Your Body Clock

A tiny brain region keeps 24-hour time using light. Screens at night confuse it.

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