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The Human Body is an eight-part documentary series, first shown on 20 May 1998 on BBC One and presented by medical scientist Robert Winston. A co-production between the BBC and The Learning Channel , the series looks at the mechanics and emotions of the human body from birth to death.
The human body is the entire structure of a human being. It is composed of many different types of cells that together create tissues and subsequently organs and then organ systems . The external human body consists of a head , hair , neck , torso (which includes the thorax and abdomen ), genitals , arms , hands , legs , and feet .
Human teeth are the only part of the body that cannot heal themselves. Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport. The first person processed at Ellis Island was a 15-year-old girl from Ireland.
Quite the globe-trotter. David Hasselhoff exclusively shared several fun facts about himself with Us Weekly — many of which are travel-related. “One place I’m dying to go to is China,” the ...
Body Story is a mini-series produced by Wall to Wall and distributed by Channel 4 and Discovery Channel.The series aired in two seasons 1998 and 2001. Combining real-life acting and computer-generated imagery, it shows the processes going on inside the human body in our daily life as well as facing dramatic experiences, in a docufictional style.
In this trivia challenge, we have 20 interesting facts & myths – some are much harder to identify than others, but they are surely interesting enough to mention to your friends and family.
The accompanying book, The Life of Mammals by David Attenborough (ISBN 0-563-53423-0), was published by BBC Books on 17 October 2002. Both DVD and book have been translated to other languages. The Dutch version of the DVD produced by Evangelische Omroep removed all references to (amongst others) evolution, fossils, and continental drift. [ 3 ]
Part of Herophilos's beliefs about the human body involved the pneuma, which he believed was a substance that flowed through the arteries along with the blood. To make this consistent with medical beliefs at the time, Herophilos stated that diseases occurred when an excess of one of the four humors impeded the pneuma from reaching the brain.