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It's time to investigate your inner real estate: your cells. You consist of over 75 trillion cells and the Standard Deviants will show you what they're like. You'll uncover the mysteries of DNA and crack the genetic codes inside of each and every one of us....

Can you say semi-permeable' Your cell membrane sure can. The Standard Deviants will show you why the cell membrane is one of the most important parts of the cell and how it's responsible for functions like active and passive transport, phagocytosis (cellular eating) and pinocytosis (cellular drinkin...

How does life happen? The Standard Deviants will show you the building blocks of all life: atoms, amino acids, and proteins. Once you know how to tinker with these toys, you'll be well on your way to being a biology expert....

It's a huge universe, and learning about it can seem like a huge task. Astronomy Part 1 can help. We'll meet some prominent ancient astronomers and discuss their theories of how the solar system works...or how they thought it worked! Then we'll take a look at Kepler's Laws, gravity, properties of li...

Prepare to meet your maker...your protein maker, that is. His name is ribonucleic acid, but his friends just call him RNA. RNA doesn't get as much publicity as DNA, but it's just as vital. Find out all the jobs this workhorse does for the body....

Our government has evolved over the years, from the First Constitutional Congress to recent case law. Reserved powers are tested, expanded and limited. This series will explain the history and divisions of our government, including their responsibilities and powers. The American Government DVD 2-Pac...

Vitamins aren’t the only important micronutrient in the body. Join the Standard Deviants as they go mining for minerals and explain the important functions these micronutrients perform....

The third and final macronutrients the Standard Deviants tackle is protein—defender of truth, justice, and the immune system. Learn the many, many functions this miraculous macronutrient performs in the body....

The American Government was carefully crafted to be a dynamic system of checks and balances. None of the three branches is more powerful than the other two, and each branch has powers specifically designed to keep the others in line. Untangling this bureaucracy is not only important for civics and h...

It's all about power. National power. State power. Concurrent power. Together they make up the swinging seesaw of Federalism. It's a constant battle for dominance between the federal and state governments, and the Standard Deviants show you the winds of change that have blown back and forth through ...