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Donate your fingers to science, they said. It will be fun, they said

Feedback weighs the benefits of testing injuries on dead or alive fingers and learns of more trivial superpowers

By Marc Abrahams

7 June 2023

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Josie Ford

Window pains

When you donate your future former self “to science”, your generosity might open a door (and, as you will see, close a window) to adventure.

A 2012 paper titled used the index, middle, ring and little fingers of 10 cadaver hands to “simulate real events in which a finger is jammed between the glass and seal entry of the window of a current motor vehicle”.

That study was cited most recently in a paper called

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