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...

Once again, we are here to round up all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Ape Anatomy We loved this story about Ape Anatomy and...

Body and mind go hand in hand. We are both. We live in a world today that has made lightning-speed advances in fixing and repairing all...

Put us down for being firm supporters of Andrew Luck. He’s the Indianapolis Colts quarterback who announced his retirement during...

The adjective ‘self-conscious’ gets a bad rap. The first definition in Merriam-Webster is “conscious of one’s own acts or states as...