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Life's Greatest Mysteries Item Name: ADAM Life's Greatest Mysteries
Item Number: LGM
Price: $89.95
Answers every body wants to know. Do you ever wonder why you can remember some things, yet forget others? What causes gray hair? Headaches? Or cancer? Join host Bob Winkle as you learn through over four hours of amazing animation, fascinating factoids, interactive games, and A.D.A.M.'s award-winning A.D.A.M. introduces Life's Greatest Mysteries, an interactive CD-ROM that explores life's most intriguing questions and provides the answers every body wants to know. The program is hosted by the ever inquisitive Bob Winkle.
This slightly eccentric British character's sense of adventure drives him to investigate the answers to questions everyone else only ponders. Some of the topics include:
- What makes us sleepy?
- Is there a cure for the common cold?
- Why are some people color blind?
- What causes goose bumps?
- How do people get Alzheimer's disease?
- What makes your heart beat?
- How do we remember things?
- Why do some people get motion sickness?
- Why do we need to sleep?
- Why do people faint?
- What is cancer?
- What is an optical illusion?
- How can I improve my memory?
- What are AIDS and HIV?
- How do Siamese twins develop?
- How does a cut heal?
- Can the brain survive without the heart?
- What is amnesia?
- Why do people have different blood types?
- Why do we daydream?
- What happens when a person goes into shock?
- What do our dreams mean?
- Why do people have two eyes?
- How do you really catch a cold?
Life's Greatest Mysteries is a great resource for children and adults alike. Through an interactive "question and answer" format with over four hours of sound, video, and animation, the software is divided into four categories providing users with a multimedia exploration of The Mind, The Body, Illness and Curiosities. And, to make sure you've been paying attention, the program also includes fascinating factoids, a comprehensive text reference and interactive games.
NOTE: This product has a setting that locks out any undesired subjects.
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WINDOWS |
68040/25
MHz |
486/33MHz |
System 7.0 up to
9.6 |
Windows 3.1 or
higher |
13-inch color
monitor 256 colors |
2.5 MB hard disk
space |
Double-speed or
faster CD-ROM drive |
SVGA color
monitor, 256 colors |
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Double-speed or
faster CD-ROM drive |
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MPC-compatible
sound card |
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