Interactive video lesson plan for: The Strange, Smelly Science of Decomposing Bodies

How is it we know so much of decomposition? The smelly truth? - Body Farms! Michael Aranda explains what happens after you die and how eventually you turn back into dust.

Hosted by: Michael Aranda
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Sources:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/may/05/life-after-death
http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/algor%20mortis
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Images:
http://cel.utk.edu/interdisciplinary_partners.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi#/media/File:OetzitheIceman-glacier-199109a.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi#/media/File:OetzitheIceman02.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anatomy#/media/File:A_depiction_of_an_anatomical_theatre.jpeg

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