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- Ganglion cells in the retina
- Powering up our dissection activities
- Dissection lists
- Pre-dissection activity
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4 minutes
- Mindi Fried weighs in on the value of preview episodes.
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Word Dissections
6 minutes
- Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
- Melanopsin
- Rhodopsin
- Photopsin
- Circadian
Book Club
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- The Physician (The Cole Trilogy Book 1) by Noah Gordon
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- Historical fiction
- Story of a European who studies medicine under Persian physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
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