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While left-handed individuals represent only about 10% of the global population, their distinct patterns and adaptability offer intriguing insights into different ways of navigating life’s challenges.

While the days of forcing left-handed children to use their right hands are mostly over, the bias against lefties continues in most languages around the world.

10.6 percent of people are left-handed, and while handedness is first and foremost a motor preference, there are many ideas about other abilities or preferences that handedness may or may not affect.

Today, being a lefty is celebrated, but that hasn’t always been the case. People who used their left hands to write, play sports, or eat were seen as bad and were often accused of engaging in ...

For decades, popular wisdom has held that left-handed people have a natural edge when it comes to creativity. But, according to new research from Cornell University, the link between left-handedness ...

We’ve all heard the whispers. Those southpaws among us supposedly have some kind of secret intellectual edge. From Leonardo da Vinci sketching with his left hand to Einstein supposedly jotting down ...

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared: all four were left-handed. Waiting for them under the tree in ...

THE LEFT-HANDED have long struggled in a right-handed world. But they are over-represented in one field: one-to-one sports such as fencing and tennis. The conventional explanation for this is that the ...