Practice your sleuthing and doctoring skills to become a Disease Detective at www.diseasedetectives.org/deeper. Get a good introduction to infectious diseases and learn how they invade your body to wreak havoc on your system. Take some time to get to know real-life disease detectives, such as researchers who are working on an AIDS vaccine and the people who inspect food so that we all stay safe. Before you move on, take time out for tales full of sickness and suspense in Personal Stories. Do your best to stay healthy!

Submerse your visual sense in splendor at The Exploratorium: Seeing, www.exploratorium.edu/seeing. Take a stroll through Exhibits to view special features and to discover new insights on sight. Amazing illusions will challenge your seeing skills, so follow the directions and prepare for a cool experience.Then check in at Ideas and learn new ideas about seeing. Take time to scroll through Links, where you can research how animals see the world, the human visual system, illusions and more. This site is sure to open your eyes to the world around you.

Get turned inside out and tune into your body at Casing the Joint, http://insideout.rigb.org/insideout/anatomy/casing_the_joint. Visit Who's the Fastest to discover just how fast balls are thrown and kicked in different sports. If you wonder about all the crazy shapes you can make, click on Bendy Bodies and look at pictures of contorting humans. Ouch! For some interactive fun, play Joints Explorer where you can use your mouse to test the limits of human flexibility.

Explore the mind's memory power at www.exploratorium.edu/memory. View picturesque memories of childhood by Franco Magnani at A Memory Artist. Then see how Yosuke Yamahata remembers the bombing of Nagasaki through his haunting photographs. Browse through Earliest Memories where you can read recollections that hold a special place in contributors' hearts. Ready for some fun? Test your own memory and play Common Cents to see if you can identify the correct coin. Don't Forget has several games to play and you can include your friends in a Memory Party Game.

Shrink yourself down to the molecular level and take a tour of the inside of a cell when you visit The National Science Foundation at www.nsf.gov/news/
overviews/biology/interactive.jsp. Use your mouse to direct your search by scrolling up, down, right and left to get a good look around you. Click on a cell-part number to find out which part of the cell you have come face-to-face with and how it functions. Maybe you want to learn more about mitochondria, a cell's "power plant," which creates energy. Explore the nucleus, also known as the cell's brain, where all genetic material, or DNA, is stored.

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