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GROSSOLOGY: THE (IMPOLITE) SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN BODY
Locally presented by:
H-E-B
El Paso
Weatherford International Ltd.
Explore the good, the bad and the downright ugly about how your body works!
Sometimes it's stinky, sometimes it's crusty; and sometimes it's slimy. Explore why your body produces mushy, oozy, crusty, scaly, and stinky gunk.
Based on the best-selling book Grossology by Sylvia Branzei, this exhibition uses sophisticated animatronics and imaginative exhibits to tell you the good, the bad and the downright ugly about runny noses, body odor and much more. Families will enjoy the interactive stations and scientific explanations to help teach the “not-so-flattering” components of the human body.
GROSSOLOGY™ is science in disguise and delightfully disgusting!
Download our coupon and save during your next trip to the Museum! Exhibit stations include:
 Nigel Nose-It-AllMeet Nigel and learn about the nose's functions: allergies, sinuses, snot trivia, runny noses and more. Plus, find out what causes runny noses!
 Tour du Nose
Enter a giant cartoon nose and explore 10 very realistic nasal features: nose hair; conchae: the opening to the front of the sinuses; the septum; the eustachian tubes; mucus production; a view down the throat; tear ducts; the olfactory epithelium and blood vessels. Just watch out for the sneezes!  Climbing Wall
Discover many features of the skin as you climb across this replica of human skin features like pimples, warts, wounds, hair, moles and other blemishes. GI Slide
Slide and crawl through a giant 3-D model of the digestive system from mouth to large intestine.  Gas Attack!
Everyone loves to play pinball! At this pinball game, you'll learn which foods create more gas in our bodies. Look Inside Learn how food is digested as it passes through the gastrointestinal system.  Burp ManGet this larger-than-life cartoon character to drink from a three-foot soda can and watch as the stomach pressure increases and causes him to release a giant burp. Then, find out how the sphincter works.
Patients Please!
Learn the parts of the body by attempting to remove them from the game table without touching the sides of the holes.
Urine: the Game
Explore how the kidneys remove waste from the blood.
Click Ick  Play the Grossology game by Segasoft at one of four computer stations.
Listen to Your Body
Listen to body sounds, including the heart, stomach gurgles, breathing and swallowing.
 Up Your Nose Find out how boogers form in your nose by launching balls at an oversized nose. See what happens if you get five balls into the nose!
 Y U StinkMatch the body odors with the area of the body they come from by smelling odors and selecting your answer. Can you tell the difference between smells from arm pits, the lower intestines, the mouth and feet?
Let’s Play GROSSOLOGY!
How much do you know about the gross things your body does? This trivia game tests what you learned from visiting Grossology!
 GROSSOLOGY™ is a collaboration between Science World, Advanced Exhibits, a division of Advanced Animations, LLC., and Grossology author Sylvia Branzei.
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Seventy out of 100 people admit to picking their nose. Three out of those seventy admit to eating their boogers.
Fresh urine is cleaner than spit or the skin on your face because healthy pee is not home to bacteria.
Every day you make four to eight cups of urine. The amount depends on how hot it is outside, what you eat and how much you drink.
You make about one quart of saliva each day.
You swallow about one quart of snot every day.
Ear wax naturally dries up and forms little balls that drop out when we yawn, chew or swallow.
Ear wax coats the inside of the ear canal to trap any nasty stuff like dirt, dust and bugs that get into your ear. People who live in big cities make more ear wax.
The skin is the largest organ of the body. You shed skin every day to produce a whole new layer of skin every 28 days.
About ten billion tiny scales of skin rub off your body every day. In a lifetime, you could fill eight five-pound flour bags with dead skin.
Your mouth is the most unsanitary part of your whole body. More than 100,000,000 micro-creatures live there at any one time.
Feet sweat because there are about 250,000 pores on their soles that squirt a quarter cup of liquid each day.
Your bladder can hold about two cups of urine comfortably.
Your nostrils take turns inhaling. You breathe through one nostril for three to four hours and then switch to the other one.
Your nose can sense smell best when you are 10 years old. That’s probably why kids notice gross smells faster than adults.
It is better to breathe through your nose than your mouth. Only air going through the nose is cleaned, warmed and moistened before it reaches your lungs.
Carrying your skin around can be a lot of work. The average adult's skin weighs about seven pounds.
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