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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Long Forgotten (Thankfully) Solution for Newborn Identification

Filed under: the good old days...

Popular Science magazine featured ultraviolet branding of newborns in its December 1938 issue. Though believed to be "harmless" at the time, there are very good reasons this is not being done today.

Link: Modern Mechanix - Yesterday's Tomorrow Today

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Wow... all these millions, err Billions of dollars spent on PPID solutions and we could save all that money... another reason to harness the "sun's power"


Posted by: Ed
on August 6, 2008 08:42 PM GMT

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