The “Visible Body”:http://www.visiblebody.com/ site is probably the coolest web 2.0 thing we’ve profiled in a while. On this site you can interact with human anatomy in a way that really was never possible before. Using intuitive controls and an easy to navigate menu system, anyone interested in just how our bodies are put together can learn the whole thing from phalanges to the xiphoid process (pictured below) at the very end of the sternum. Did you know there are 206 bones in the human body?

Once logged in (which you have to do with Internet Explorer) you’ll need to install a plugin from “Anark”:http://www.anark.com/downloads/download_1.aspx and then wait a tick to download all the various bits and baubles that make up our bodies. There are a LOT of bits and baubles in the human body. This may all seem like a huge pain in the ass but in the end it is worth it. The level of detail and interactivity with what is apparently a very accurate anatomical model like this is just plain mandible-dropping amazing. It’s almost enough to make me want to go to med school. Almost.
To read about some fantastic things we humans do with our bodies, check out the “human tricks”:http://duenos.net/article/human-tricks category. Thanks yet again to the lovely people at “Infodoodads”:http://infodoodads.com/?p=293 for finding this gem of a resource.