The A&P Professor

0:40 | How many genes in the human genome? An update. 4:36 | A new sensory structure found in the gut 9:27 | Featured: Advice on using media properly - chat with Barbara Waxer If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! 1 | Update: Number of Genes in Human Genome 4 minutes A recent article in Science News kinda sounds like the known number of genes in the human genome has doubled...

0:59 | New discovery about the shape of red blood cells 4:54 | Featured: Chat with the authors of a new book about how we learn If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! "Educational practice does not, for the most part, rely on research findings. Instead, there's a preference for relying on our intuitions about what's best for learning. But relying on intuition may be a bad idea for...

0:42 | A new micro-organ in our lymph nodes? 5:31 | Daily Nuzzel newsletter with curated headlines for A&P teachers 7:18 | Succeed in A&P podcast mentioned us! 9:04 | Featured: Modeling professional integrity 18:36 | The A&P Student blog If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! I don't think it works very well to tell our students to be ethical. We have to show them what ethical...

Greg Crowther sings A Physiologist's Blessing (3.5 min) Button & zipper junctions in the lymphatic capillaries (7.5 min) Methods to promote academic honesty and reduce cheating (28.5 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. Harper...

Introduction (2 min) Do students read the syllabus? What is a syllabus? (8 min) Reading and raiding the syllabus (14.5 min) First-day activities | A syllabus quiz? (18.5 min) Basic elements of a syllabus (13.5 min) More things to put in a syllabus (12 min) Study strategies, extra topics, & FAQs (8.5 min) Conclusion (1 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! There is a...

Medical mitochondria (4 min) Syllabuses: I need your help (1 min) Review of first two parts of this series (3 min) Featured: EVEN MORE Tricks for Retention & Success in Online Courses (18.5 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! (0:42) New research proposes using mitochondria isolated from healthy tissue in a patient's body to treat ischemic heart muscle and perhaps other...

Syllabuses? Syllabi? Which is correct? (3 min) Continuing the conversation (1 min) Featured: 49 MORE Tricks for Retention & Success in Online Courses (22 min) Next episode is part 3 of 3 (1 min) Please nominate The A&P Professor for The People's Choice Podcast Awards! Simply click here to register (free) and select The A&P Professor in the Education category. Listener nominations close on July 31st. If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor...

Transcripts, captioned audiograms, & more! (7.5 min) Intro to featured topic (1 min) 49 tricks for retention & success in online courses (32.5 min) Connecting with this podcast (1 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! (0:41) We've reached 5,000 downloads because of your kind support! All TAPP Radio episodes have a full transcript, useful for reading along or searching for...

How many genes in the human genome? (3.5 min) Free book of brain facts (2.5 min) Expand the reach of this podcast (3.5 min) Why students should read A&P terms out loud (10 min) Binge much? (1 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! (0:43) New research increases the number of coding genes in the human genome up from around 19,000 or so genes to just over 21,000 genes. New...

Summer schedule reminder (< 1 min) Giving slides to students (6 min) Update on the TAPP APP (1.5 min) Catch up with sleep on weekends (3 min) Commit to caring for our A&P students (19 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! You've probably heard that students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Hold that thought. (0:42) Reminder: episodes...

TAPP APP now available! (2 min) Introduction to Paul Krieger (2 min) Contour drawing for anatomy with Paul Krieger (19 min) Change to a biweekly podcast schedule (1 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! Jean Fernel once wrote, "Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history. It describes the theater of events." (0:44) This episode announces the availability of the...

Getting ready for the annual conference of the Human Anatomy & Physiology Society (HAPS)? Long-timer Kevin Patton gives some tips on how to get the most out of your experience, including Kevin's Law of Professional Development. If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! "I learn SO much at these things!" Kevin Patton (at every HAPS Annual Conference since 1990) (0:37) Bonus...

How do you spell mamillary? (5.5 min) Leave each semester with confidence after a course review. (22.5 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! "We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." Thornton Wilder (0:42) Which spelling is correct, mammillary or mamillary? Is it Mamillary or Mammillary?How Do YOU Pronounce...

News & Notes | pig brains, new DNA found, TAPP, HAPS roadtrip (9 min) Pronouncing issues with A&P terms (10 min) The A&P Student blog (1.5 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! (0:50) News & Notes Pig brains kept alive in the lab. Scientists 'keep pigs' brains alive without a body for up to 36 hours'Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the bodyResearchers...

Why does the Golgi apparatus looks so weird? (5.5 min) A love story analogy for muscle contraction? (8 min) Don't forget the Alexa skill for this podcast! (2 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! (0:47) The Golgi apparatus has a distinctive flattened shape. It turns out that it's the functioning of the cytoskeleton that is responsible. Why the Golgi Apparatus Looks So...

Can adult brains make new neurons? Again. (4 min) See you at HAPS 2018? (5.5 min) Learning styles. Harm or help? Or a bit of both? (12 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! 0:57 Kevin revisits the notion of whether neurogenesis (growing new neurons) can occur in the adult brain, particularly in the hippocampus. A past episode mentioned a study that said "no" to adult...

Why the term meatus is weird. (3 min) Convenient ways to subscribe to TAPP Radio. (2 min) Playfulness and analogies have a role in storytelling. (14 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! (0:46) The term meatus is properly pluralized as meatus or meatuses (not meati) Meatus | Weird Wordmeatuso-log-yMeatus as a fourth-declension noun (3:31) There are a lot of options for...

Microglia prune synapses to remodel brain circuits. (6 min) Kevin's new online seminar on Long-Term Learning. (1 min) Teaching A&P tells the story of the human body. (15 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! Multiple synapse heads send out filopodia (green) converging on one microglial cell (red), as seen by focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy...

Has a new organ been discovered? (4 min) Students benefit from debriefing after each test. (18.5 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! Interstitium. Illustration by Jill Gregory. Printed with permission from Mount Sinai Health System, licensed under CC-BY-ND. (0:46) Has a new human organ discovered? Or is this news mostly hype? Or is the answer somewhere in the...

New Alexa skill for this podcast! (3.5 min) Free media from the National Science Foundation. (1.5 min) Tips for teaching the skeleton. (15.5 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram! (1:25) If you use an Alexa-enabled device, you can now enable "the a. p. professor podcast" Alexa skill to listen to any episode, navigate within episodes, and save your place for your next...