Anatomy Follies: how your body actually works
How your body actually works.
Every claim, sourcedTonight’s programme
The Follies
Things you can play with to see how your body works: pull a diaphragm, race a reflex, scroll into your own cells. Drawn with the same code as our cartoons, and every number in them comes with its source.
On YouTube
The latest film
Your mother’s cells, trillions of bacteria, a bacterium that moved into every cell and a virus that helps build the placenta: eleven minutes on everyone living inside you.
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The house rules
What you get here
Drawn by code
Every frame of our cartoons, and every piece here, is drawn line by line by our own code.
Every claim, sourced
Every number comes from a primary source, with author and year. A hypothesis is labelled as one.
How it works, not what to take
We explain the mechanism. We never tell you what to take or what to do about your health.