An old fable — that a young Dutch boy stuck his finger in a hole in a dike, thereby preventing disaster — has a contemporary counterpart. Reportedly this new story is true. The 24 Oranges blog reports: Fireman saves 65 coffee containers by putting foot in ship’s leak Last Friday a diver of the Schoonhoven […]
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Moral judgment and the relative lengths of your fingers
You may find it hard to argue against, or even to begin arguing for, the line of reasoning in this study. It shows how a people’s capacity to make moral judgments is related to the relative lengths of two of their fingers: “Testosterone administration modulates moral judgments depending on second-to-fourth digit ratio,” Estrella R. Montoya, […]
The cosmic finger of friendship
Investigator Ian Davis wrote us today to reminisce about the coining here, in 2001, of the phrase “The Cosmic Finger of Friendship”. A year later, the phrase and the photograph that inspired it (reproduced here) made it onto the cover of the magazine.
Testing pumpkin-carving knives on cadaver arms
The knifing of pumpkins, an innocent-seeming yet carefully planned act of mutilation, sometimes results (accidentally or otherwise) in sprays, bits and smatterings of human, as well as vegetable, gore. In such cases, blood –human blood – flows, drips and coagulates. A hands-on experiment, or rather, an experiment on hands, in 2004, tried to determine the […]