I've decided that every Monday I shall share our forensic fun with the blogosphere. Happily some of Dom's teddy bears have helped us stage pictorial illustrations to accompany some of the terms. Join us each week as we learn our ABC's of crime detection and analysis.
MY FIRST FORENSIC ALPHABET
A is for AUTOPSY
Examining bodies, also known as post mortems,
As murder speaks through our miraculous organs.
B is for BALLISTICS
When bullets are fired down the barrel of a gun,
Grooves called striations are etched in each one.
C is for CONTACT TRACES
As Locard said, ‘every contact leaves a trace’,
Like jam-sticky fingers smeared all over the place.
D is for DNA
Deoxyribonucleic Acid in a helix that’s double,
Leaving hair, blood or semen can get you in trouble.
11 comments:
If Dom developed a CSI level obsession with not leaving evidence of his adventures we'd have a much cleaner, though possibly bleach-stained, house :-)
True. I wouldn't trust him with the bleach at the moment. Maybe they make toddler-sized latex gloves?
So, so good.
This is wonderful! I wish I could hear some of the conversations you all have. He sounds like a really incredible kid.
Michele
SouthernCityMysteries
Thanks for the comments Giffy and Michele! :-)
As long as he doesn't start autopsying your pets, I think it's great.
CD
Heh. I think the cat is safe for now. I do remember that as a child, my best friend and I went to a phrase of roaming around looking for dead animals and bugs to practise our dissection skills. I don't think her mum was thrilled when she discovered we were using her kitchen knives to hack up dead worms and things.
I should also point out (just in case grandmothers start to worry that I'm warping my child with an unhealthy forensics obsession) that he is considerably more obsessed with cook books. If he spots any recipe book, he seize and carries it off to thoroughly scruntinise every page. I'm hoping this will lead to having an accomplished young chef in the house to cook delicious foods for me in the near future. :-)
I'm pretty sure his Science Teacher grandmother would heartily approve of any dissection of *already dead* bugs and animals.
I'd agree though that his obsession with cook books is far more promising :-)
His Science teacher grandmother will be very amused when he combines the dissecting AND the cooking! worm meringues anyone? or mice pies?
I sincerely hope that these two areas of interest will be kept separate, but I'll be checking any snacks he prepares for bugs and worms just in case.
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