
Overview
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.
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2 - 1Magnetism February 18, 1994
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2 - 2Wind February 25, 1994
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2 - 3Blood & Circulation March 04, 1994
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2 - 4Chemical Reactions March 11, 1994
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2 - 5Static Electricity March 18, 1994
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2 - 6Food Web March 25, 1994
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2 - 7Light Optics September 10, 1994
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2 - 8Bones & Muscles September 17, 1994
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2 - 9Oceanography September 24, 1994
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2 - 10Heat October 01, 1994
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2 - 11Insects October 08, 1994
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2 - 12Balance October 15, 1994
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2 - 13The Sun October 22, 1994
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2 - 14Brain October 29, 1994
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2 - 15Forests November 05, 1994
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2 - 16Communication November 12, 1994
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2 - 17Momentum November 19, 1994
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2 - 18Reptiles November 26, 1994
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2 - 19Atmosphere December 03, 1994
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2 - 20Respiration January 07, 1995