BODY OF KNOWLEDGE ON NATIONAL GEO.Byline: DAVID David, in the Bible David, d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. KRONKE >TV CRITIC National Geographic's "Inside the Living Body" offers you the rare opportunity to watch your life flash before your eyes in two short hours, and without having to die in the end. Well, not your life, specifically, but physiologically, probably close enough. Through nifty computer animation and some incredibly invasive photography, "Inside the Living Body" charts the development and subsequent decay of a human life, depicting the development of internal organs, muscles and bones. Along the way, it offers an astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, array of factoids: You'll take 700 million breaths in the course of your life. If you continued to grow at the rate that a baby grows in his or her first year, you'd weigh 150tons by age 4. One grows seven miles of hair a year. The mouth produces half a gallon of saliva a day. By age 45, you've created 40 pounds of dust from old skin cells. And so on. And although it's awfully educational, there's plenty of gross-out stuff here, as well, as the brute work of the digestive system is portrayed lovingly and at length. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , don't plan to snack while watching this. The documentary's edification ed·i·fi·ca·tion n. Intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement; enlightenment. Noun 1. edification - uplifting enlightenment sophistication becomes less entertaining once it starts exploring how our bodies inevitably betray us, and the peculiar phrase "the hostile environment of the vagina" crops up (referring to the trek sperm must reconnoiter re·con·noi·ter v. re·con·noi·tered, re·con·noi·ter·ing, re·con·noi·ters v.tr. To make a preliminary inspection of, especially in order to gather military information. v.intr. , but odd-sounding nonetheless). Still, "Inside the Living Body" transforms a biology lesson that was heretofore arid into something fresh and fascinating. David Kronke, (818) 713-3638 david.kronke@dailynews.com www.insidesocal.com/tv/ INSIDE THE LIVING BODY - Three stars >What: Birth-to-death via cool computer graphics. >Where: National Geographic Channel
>When: 9 tonight. (Satellite subscribers check listings.) >In a nutshell: Entertaining and edifying ed·i·fy tr.v. ed·i·fied, ed·i·fy·ing, ed·i·fies To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement. - but don't plan to snack while watching. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: National Geographic's "Inside the Living Body" charts the development and subsequent decay of a human life, depicting the development of internal organs, muscles and bones. |
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