Bill Nye the Science Guy Season 2 Episode 8 Bones & Muscles 1994
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.
- Released: 1994-09-17
- Runtime: 26 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Kids
- Stars: Bill Nye, Rachel Glenn, Jennifer Lin, Amy Broder, Ethan Ferkiss
- Director: Bill Nye, Michael Gross, Kit Boss, Erren Gottlieb, Ian G. Saunders
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1. Magnetism 1994-02-18
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3. Blood & Circulation 1994-03-04
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4. Chemical Reactions 1994-03-11
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5. Static Electricity 1994-03-18
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6. Food Web 1994-03-25
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7. Light Optics 1994-09-10
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8. Bones & Muscles 1994-09-17
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9. Oceanography 1994-09-24
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11. Insects 1994-10-08
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12. Balance 1994-10-15
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13. The Sun 1994-10-22
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15. Forests 1994-11-05
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16. Communication 1994-11-12
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17. Momentum 1994-11-19
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18. Reptiles 1994-11-26
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19. Atmosphere 1994-12-03
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20. Respiration 1995-01-07
