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Study Shows Left-Handers Have More Flexible Brains
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| 3-6-02
| Robert Lee Hotz
Posted on 03/06/2002 9:50:08 PM PST by PurVirgo
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To: diefree
Yup Sister Santagertrudas and crew tried to belt it out of me,crazy thing is I bat and play golf right handed.
To: Governor StrangeReno
This thread has taken a sinister turn!!
To: stands2reason
My maternal grandmother was born in 1900 and developed into a lefty. Years later, when she was given an x-ray, it revealed she was born with a broken right collarbone. She said she did things lefthanded because it hurt less. Duh.
To: sciencediet; muggs
Experiment works. Left-hand automatically dominant. muggs~~~experience same. Think it IS common with lefties.
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posted on
03/08/2002 9:39:31 PM PST
by
Brynna77
To: PurVirgo
Large birds also show a preference in "footedness". My parrot always holds her food in her left foot while eating, never the right foot. It's comical. She looks like somebody at a party clutching their drink. She'll even wave the left foot around sometimes while holding food in it.
I'm told their are university studies being done (your tax dollars at work) to determine if there is anything humans can learn from parrots in regard to this righty-lefty stuff.
To: Young Werther
Don't tell me you think left handedness is a sign of the evil one too
To: Governor StrangeReno
I'm going to have to do a search to find the article, but I read on FR several days ago about the correlation between sonograms during pregnancy and boys winding up left-handed when their Mother's had sonograms during a certain stage of pregnancy - indicating a statistical probability of brain-damage to male babies, resulting in left-handedness.
I now wish I knew how to do that teeny-tiny print thing that some posters use, when they say, "Now donning flame-proof suit" as they rapidly exit!
To: Governor StrangeReno
As a matter of fact......
Sinister comes from the Latin:sinistra which means left side or left handed. Dexterous: from Latin means right side or right handedness. Ambidextrous means being capable of using either had with "dexterity" or right handedness. Thank You Mrs Gromley, (my Latin teacher).
As a matter of fact, the ratio of right handedness to left handedness is about 85% to 15%. I read an article where, during the Middle Ages, many people who were left handed were persecuted as witches because left handedness was far from the norm. This is where the term sinister took on it's current meaning of an evil, bad, nogoodnik or action.
Class is out for today.
To: TruthNtegrity
Leonardo Di Vinci and I tend to disagree with an overall retardation proposition ,however ,as for ultrasound recent research is indicative that it could well be dangerous fullstop,theres a good article in Nexus magazine this month about it
To: Young Werther
Yep Leonardo had to pretend there was something wrong with his right hand.
To: lafroste
The reason the crossing your arms thing doesn't work for you is you're to darn ambidextrous; that's your problem.
Cross your arms again. You say you're lefthanded and your right hand comes out on top? Make yourself cross your arms the other way - most people have to concentrate to do this; how hard is it for you or are you so ambidextrous you didn't feel a thing?
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posted on
03/09/2002 6:17:47 AM PST
by
Lady Jag
To: Brynna77
Crossing the arms and having the dominant hand come out on top seems to work in about 2/3 of the people when I try it in a group It's not unusual to find one or two of the contrarians were changed from left to right in childhood, but I haven't figured out the rest of the contrarian group.
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posted on
03/09/2002 6:22:16 AM PST
by
Lady Jag
To: Judith Anne
Do you twist your paper so the header is to the left, when you write? Yes, almost sideways. Am providing some anecdotal support, here.
I, too, was forced to switch from left to right. If I'm very tired, my writing gets somewhat dyslexic, but don't think I have too many other problems. Was given "genius tests" repeadedly in grade school (we moved around a lot). Have three very intelligent children, one of them, my son, is a lefty.
Daughter-in-law is a lefty, too. They have two children, one a lefty, the other too young to know yet, but he reaches and grabs for things mostly with his right.
My area-of-expertise is computers and my son is a very talented artist currently working on a computer science degree. On the other hand, one of my daughters (righty) is currently working on her Master's Degree in Information Systems Engineering.
Interesting stuff!
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posted on
03/09/2002 6:47:16 AM PST
by
FrogMom
To: Young Werther
Don't forget that lefties tend to die far more frequently in home accidents and have statistically shorter life-spans in general.
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posted on
03/09/2002 6:51:15 AM PST
by
FrogMom
To: PurVirgo
What about the "left handed" person who is forced to use their right hand? My grandmother was forced to be right-handed by the nuns. There was payback: I'm left-handed; so are my two sisters and brother. My other two brothers are right-handed. Of my aunt's four kids, two are left-handed. I'm not sure about my uncle's 3 kids, but I bet at least one of them is left-handed. So out of just the 10 grandchildren between my mother and her sister's kids, 6 are left-handed. (My two daughters, to my surprise, are righties).
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posted on
03/09/2002 6:57:03 AM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: stands2reason
I wonder if left-handedness can also be a result of brain damage? The mentally retarded also have a higher instance of left-handedness.That is news to moi! I do know that my brother's mentor and architecture professor at the Univ of Cincinnati told his entire class that if 'you are not left handed you probably will never achieve greatness in this field' because all of the greatest architects have been left handed-from Leonardo De Vinci or Michealangelo to Frank Loyld Wright and I.M. Pei. Also, this same is true of artists.
I have also read that left handers are more prone to being clumsey and die earlier than the average stats. Bummer. Since I am left handed!
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posted on
03/09/2002 6:59:52 AM PST
by
Republic
To: Timesink
LOL-ME TOO! ( Harvard, Univ of Penn, Dartmouth and on and on have been courting my eldest dtr like crazy! Retarded? Hardly!!!!! :^)
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posted on
03/09/2002 7:01:41 AM PST
by
Republic
To: FrogMom
Well, all I know about that is, I've stubbed (and broken) two toes in the past year. ;-D OUCH! ;-D On the other hand, except for running off the road in a snowstorm (no damage, no injury) I haven't had any auto accidents...;-D
To: stands2reason
Left-handed, right-eared. Interesting stuff here, I'm reading. Thanks ALL!
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posted on
03/10/2002 10:32:43 AM PST
by
Brynna77
To: Judith Anne
LOL - I always tell people, There's a reason my mom didn't name me Grace. I haven't broken any bones *knocks on wood*, but I am a certified klutz. Hehe, and I don't give out directions either... the whole left-right thing gets me every time. If you tell me North, South, East, or West, I can do it. Of course, I have a compass in my car to help me too! *LMAO* Funny thing, most guys I have dated are also left handed. Guess birds of a feather really do flock together.
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