Bill Nye the Science Guy
Season 2 Episode 8 - Bones & Muscles
In this show, you can Bone up on Muscles. When you clicked on the Nye Labs web site to read this, you used your bones and muscles. Without them, you can't click, surf, or even sigh. Bones and muscles work together, or you aren't going anywhere. Muscles always pull, even when you push on something like a door somewhere in your body your arm and leg muscles are in tension. They are all attached to bones, and those bones are pushing; they're in compression. By pulling on bones you can breathe, talk, and move all over the world. Your bones support your weight like beams of steel or wood. They're stiff and strong. Rigid as they might seem though, they do flex. And, if you bang one hard enough, it swells up. You have a lump. That's because bones are full of blood vessels. Bones are not solid like rocks or skeletons in a dinosaur museum. Bones flex and grow. In fact, putting healthy amounts of stress on your bones is good for them.
Episodes in Season 2
Magnetism
26 min
Wind
26 min
Blood & Circulation
26 min
Chemical Reactions
26 min
Static Electricity
26 min
Food Web
26 min
Light Optics
26 min
Bones & Muscles
26 min
Oceanography
26 min
Heat
26 min
Insects
26 min
Balance
26 min
The Sun
26 min
Brain
26 min
Forests
26 min
Communication
26 min
Momentum
26 min
Reptiles
26 min
Atmosphere
26 min
Respiration
26 min
