Despite sharing the same DNA, identical twins can apparently differ physically in one way — their fingerprints. It’s because fingerprints are influenced not only by one’s genes but also by the environment inside our mother’s wombs; while genetics likely determine the basic shapes, the precise details are affected by umbilical cord length, blood pressure, and nutrition. Even if they developed in the same womb, they can never be in the same position, so twins’ fingerprints will rarely be identical.
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Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
