Left and right and hobbies in Greece all existed for a long time before anyone took a long look into whether they might be connected or interrelated. That long look gets a writeup in the study: “Handedness and Hobby Preference,” O. Giotakos, Perceptual and Motor Skills, vol. 98, no. 3, part 1, June 2004, pp. […]
The nation of Belarus has taken big very public, perhaps symbolic gestures against discrimination. In Belarus, one infers, all persons are considered equally capable of performing important tasks. The Christian Science Monitor reports: In Belarus, one-armed man arrested for clapping The crackdown in Belarus grew more indiscriminate this week. Among the 400 arrested: a one-armed […]
A letter in the Sept 22, 2010 issue of Nature magazine begins: DNA dealt wrong hand on cover Michael Eisen Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, Berkeley It could not escape my notice that your cover of 9 September (Nature 467, issue 7312; 2010) is dominated by a DNA molecule with a pronounced left-handed […]
So far as we’re aware, the project described in this July 2008 Scientific American report is the only one to even claim to investigate the question of handedness, or tentacled-ness, in octopuses, or octopi. In an attempt to find out if octopuses are right- or left-handed, er, tentacled, scientists from the Sea Life Center in […]