Incredible Science & Magical Secrets: Discovering What’s Inside You 🧠🔮
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Incredible Science & Magical Secrets: Discovering What’s Inside You 🧠🔮

B1IntermediateJuly 15, 202620 min

In this episode of BookQuest, we are exploring the ultimate map of discovery. Whether we are traveling deep inside our own skin to unlock the mysteries of the human body, or stepping into a magical land of lost family secrets, the real quest is finding out what lies beneath the surface. On the Shelf This Week: Dr. Ranj joins the show to discuss Dr Ranj's Human Body Encyclopedia. Get ready to explore the wonders of the human body with your trusty NHS guide! From why you get goosebumps to how your brain works, we're answering y...

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Hello and welcome to the Fun Kids Book Quest podcast. My name is Bex, I love books, and I've got two rather exciting ones on the way for you today, and two very different ones as well.

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Did you know that your brain is like a supercomputer inside your head?

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Hello and welcome to the Fun Kids Book Quest podcast. My name is Bex, I love books, and I've got two rather exciting ones on the way for you today, and two very different ones as well. On the way we've got Emma Smith-Barton telling us about Atlas and Sky, but first, TV's Dr. Ranj joins the show to reveal the incredible science behind the human body with some fascinating facts. Did you know that your brain is like a supercomputer inside your head? It sits protected inside your strong skull and is organised into different parts,

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each with its own set of jobs. Now, if you zoomed in on the brain with a microscope, you'd see that it's made of lots of nerve cells or neurons of different shapes and sizes. In fact, there are around 100 billion of them in there.

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They communicate with each other at special connections called synaxes. your brain cells communicate through electrical signals and this is also how your brain sends and receives information from the rest of your body it's such a good book and the kind of book where i'm like i think adults and kids should read it because it's a bit of a refresher for grown-ups

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