Another Must-See

   As a lifelong-learner myself, as will as an educator, I can't resist passing on a really great site if I have found one. I've given a link or two to others before, and today I just have to do it again.
   Take a look around this site if you're at all interested in heart facts, or mark it for your kid's next science project. It's packed with the kind of facts that get an "A" on school projects, like the number of times your heart will beat in one year, and the amount of blood it pumps around your body three times every minute.
   Check out the Map of the Human Heart, a colour graphic of a heart in cross-section; Amazing Heart Facts; The Artificial Human, with "everything from hips of steel to lab-grown skin"; Pioneering Surgeon: O.H. Frazier, the man who has done more heart transplants than any other; and Operation: Heart Transplant.
    The last mentioned part of the site will walk you through a greatly simplified heart transplant that will outline all the basic steps required in this life-saving procedure. You'll need Shockwave software so you can enter the virtual operating theatre and pick up your scalpel. Be aware that the site does not treat this operation as a joke but rather as a learning experience. They start their visitors off with an acknowledgement of the almost 800 people who died last year in the Stated while waiting for a donor.
    As I said, if you have a minute to spare, a visit to this site will expand your mind for sure, and maybe provide just that extra bit your up-and-coming genius needs to take first prize in this year's science project.