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Hand gestures grew out of fish brains! 24 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
This summer an important fundamental discovery was reported at the Society for Experimental Biology’s annual meeting July 3-6 in Valencia, Spain: hand gestures grew out of fish brains! Andrew Bass, C...
Do you have a radial loop fingerprint? 5 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
Do you have a radial loop fingerprint? In people who have radial loop fingerprints these are usually spotted on the index finger(s); in the field of hand reading it is a common beliew to associate rad...
18 July is Nelson Mandela day: a tribute to Madiba’s hands! 30 Jun 2013 | 09:33 pm
In 2010 the United Nations declared 18 July as ‘Mandela day’ (or: Nelson Mandela International Day), an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela. Mandela Day (which is also Madiba’s birthd...
Primate family report: opposable thumb correlates with self-awareness! 12 Apr 2013 | 06:33 pm
The human opposable thumb: with reason neurologist Frank R. Wilson called it ‘the Twenty-Four-Karat thumb’. Because thumb studies in primates have revealed that only humans have ‘perfect opposable thu...
Interactive chart: discover hand reflexology! 2 Apr 2013 | 04:13 am
Discover how areas of the hands are approximate to the body’s anatomy with the interactive hand reflexology map widget developed by Barbara Kunz & Kevin Kunz, two of the world’s most internationally r...
The primate hands family tree: structure corresponds with behavior! 30 Mar 2013 | 06:54 pm
The primate hands family tree shows how dominant behavior in primates can be linked with hand structure. For example, gorillas & baboons are known to belong to the most dominant/aggressive primate spe...
The fate of a violin player resides in their pinky finger! 12 Feb 2013 | 04:36 am
The violin is known as the instrument most commonly offered to children by state schools in the UK. It’s a challenging instrument, because rapid independent motion of the digital joints in the left ha...
The Megan Fox thumbs ‘saga’ continues! 9 Feb 2013 | 08:52 pm
Last december the Megan Fox thumb ’saga’ continued at The Tonigh Show with Jay Leno, where Megan talked about her thumb insecurities (she has clubbed thumbs)… suggesting that she thinks her weird ‘fat...
Human right watcher: ‘Iran uses finger-chopping machine for politics!’ 9 Feb 2013 | 06:40 pm
Iran’s new finger-chopping machine may be touted as a punishment for thieves, but Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam (spokesperson for Iran Human Rights in Norway) thinks this cruel and unusual method of punishm...
Holding hands with a fetus – PART 2 18 Jan 2013 | 11:39 pm
ARIZONA, OCTOBER 2012 This remarkable photo was taken by Arizona’s Randy Atkins, who is a professional photographer. His wife Alicia gave birth to their daughter Neveah last October. “The doctor calle...
