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Where Do Fingerprints Come From?
From cradle to grave, no matter how much fingers grow, everyone's fingerprints are unique and unchanging (2:30)
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I like Aline Dickstein do not have fingerprints and find it difficult to pick up small objects like needles. I would love to know how to produce some type of pattern on my finger tips.
Posted by Jacqueline Werner on June 11,2012 | 02:32 PM
That sounds like a great activity for children, too! Thanks for the idea.
Posted by Joy on June 3,2012 | 10:57 PM
I thought there was now some argument as to whether fingerprints are as unique as we've always believed.
Posted by A Skerratt on June 3,2012 | 03:13 PM
Mark Twain made good use of the unique qualities of fingerprints in his book Pudd'nhead Wilson, using them to prove when they were adults that a slave and a master's child were switched as infants by the slave's mother. It is a book too rarely read today.
Posted by Glenna Jo Christen on June 3,2012 | 03:00 PM
I do not have fingerprints. My fingertips have wrinkles and creases but no whorls or loops. It is difficult to pick up large cardboard boxes unless I can get my hand under them.
Posted by Aline Dickstein on June 3,2012 | 01:04 PM
My husband and I attended a class titled "Crime Scene Forensics" in Las Vegas administered by Road Scholar (formerly Elder Hostel) in March 2012. One morning was devoted to fingerprints, and it involved a lot more scrutiny than I had anticipated. One exercise involved white balloons and ink pads. We each partially blew up a white balloon, then pressed our fingers in ink and made nice black prints on the balloons, which we proceeded to blow up some more. The enlarged fingerprints made it easier to see the loops and whorls and count the "ends" or stopping places of the various lines. I now have a greater appreciation of the complications involved in identifying fingerprints.
Posted by Susan Anderson on May 27,2012 | 06:56 PM