A new Italian study points towards a handy way to identify who might become a top doctor. The method: Compare the lengths of a person’s second finger and fourth finger. It’s that simple. The monograph is called The Second-To-Fourth Digit Ratio Correlates with the Rate of Academic Performance in Medical School Students and appears in […]
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FR(finger ratio)enology research: Alpha males
Yet another advance in FR(finger ratio)enology research! A Corcordia University press release explains: Alpha males take greater risks Potential investors might wish to examine the fingers of their financial advisor prior to signing over any savings. A new study from Concordia University has found the length between the second and fourth finger is an indicator […]
How many microbes on/in a person?
Moelselio Schaechter and Stanley Maloy consider an old, and increasingly good question in the Small Things Considered blog: How often have you heard it said, or seen it stated in writing, that we carry ten times more microbial cells than cells of our own? We don’t dispute this figure, at least not as a ballpark […]