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Monday, September 15, 2008

Tricks of Human Fingers

Human fingers can be artistic, weird, funny, intriguing and intelligent. We have associated them with palmistry and fortune telling. Doctors have associated them with medical diagnosis. Ignoring them for a long time, psychologists are now also realizing their significance. Hamamatsu Photonics in Japan discovered that human hands emit light all the time, in particular the fingernails. The detector found that fingernails release 60 photons, fingers release 40 and the palms are the dimmest of all, with 20 photons measured. In the future, the light from our hands and rest of our body may be used to diagnose medical problems. Each hand is dominantly controlled by the opposing brain hemisphere preferred hand choice for single-handed activities.



























































































Regardless of where you are and what you have or don't have with you, you will always have your fingers with you. And with them you can perform some exceptional magic tricks.
Have you ever tried to adjust your fingers for different expressions?