Kirby B.'s List: left-handed

• Language certainly discriminates against the left-hander: A "left-handed  compliment" is not something you want to hear; the word for "left" in French is  gauche, and in  Latin it's sinister; in  contrast, from the French word for "right," droit, we get  the English word adroit,  and Latin for right is dexter (from which we get such words as dexterous). Ambidextrous  means literally "both right."
• People are also left-footed and right-footed. Usually one eye is stronger than  the other, so people can be left-eyed and right-eyed. And even stranger: pay  close attention to your friends' faces. Really stare at them, watch closely when  their lips curve into smiles. You'll see that people are almost always strongly  left-faced or right-faced. One side is usually much more expressive than the  other. In fact, if you mirror the two sides of a person's face to create a  left-composite and a right-composite, you'll find yourself looking at two  completely different people.

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• There have even been inverted pianos where the deepest notes correspond to the  rightmost keys instead of the
• Left-handed persons are thought to process information using a "visual  simultaneous" method in which several threads can be processed simultaneously.  Another way to view this is such: Suppose there were one thousand pieces of  popcorn and one of them was colored blue. Right-handed people—using the linear  sequential processing style—would look at the popcorn one at a time until they  encountered the blue one. The left-handed person would spread out the pieces of  popcorn and look at all of them to find the one that was blue. A side effect of  these differing styles of processing is that right-handers need to complete one  task before they can start the next. Left-handers, by contrast, are capable and  comfortable switching between tasks. This seems to suggest that left-handed  people have an excellent ability to multi-task, and anecdotal evidence that they  are more creative may stem from this ability to multi-task.

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