The BDN has served Maine for over years. Skip to content. None of the occupants were wearing life jackets. More articles from the BDN. Next Searching for answers to the puzzle of autism. Musicians, like Paul McCartney, are among those said to be more commonly left-handed than the population at large. Pele, the famous Brazilian soccer player, was left-handed.
Actress Julia Roberts is a left-hander. Justin Bieber signs autographs and plays the guitar left-handed. Bart Simpson is just one of the characters on "The Simpsons" who are left-handed. Perhaps because Simpson creator Matt Groening is a leftie, too. The brains and bodies of lefties may operate differently than those of right-handed people and in mixed-handed people, who may have different dominant hands for different tasks. Here's a look at some of the most common facts about being left-handed, and what it might really mean for your health.
It's not just genetics. Left-handedness does tend to run in families, he says, "but noticeably less than other inherited traits, like height or intelligence.
There are plenty of theories on what else might determine which hand you write with, but many experts believe that it's kind of random, says Yeo. It's linked to stress in pregnancy. Read More. In one British study, the fetuses of super-stressed pregnant women were more likely to touch their faces more with their left hands than their right.
This could be the first signs of a left-handed child, say the researchers. Other evidence supports that theory. In one Swedish study of moms and their 5-year-old children, women who were depressed or stressed during their pregnancies were more likely to have mixed- or left-handed kids. In other studies, babies with low birth weight, or born to older mothers, were more likely to be lefties as well.
It's more common in twins. Identical twins are sometimes mirror images of each other—one twin has a mole on her right cheek and the other has a mole in the same spot on her left cheek, for instance.
It was once believed that twins' genetic makeup should be "mirrored" as well—therefore, one twin should be left-handed and the other should be right. It was also once thought that all left-handed people started out as twins, and that their rightie siblings died in the womb. Neither of these is true, but left-handedness is about twice as common in twins than in the general population.
It doesn't make you "right-brained". Most right-handed people use the left hemisphere of their brains to process language, but that doesn't mean most lefties are "right-brained"—that's just a common myth, says Gina Grimshaw, PhD, director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Wellington in New Zealand.
For other one-sided brain functions, such as attention, emotion, music, and face perception, she says, there are less data.
They certainly don't have reversed brains. It may cause you to think differently. Society tends to associate the left side of something with the bad "two left feet" , and the right side with the good "my right-hand man".
But if you're left-handed, you might not think the same way as righties, according to a Stanford University study. Participants were shown two columns of abstract illustrations and asked which seemed more intelligent, happy, honest, and attractive.
Righties were more likely to choose the illustrations in the right column, while lefties were more likely to choose the drawings in the left column. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.
He was recommended by the Barings, with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information. He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously.
He was, in short, the least communicative of men. He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.
Had he travelled? It was likely, for no one seemed to know the world more familiarly; there was no spot so secluded that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance with it. He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard-of travellers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions. He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else.
His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. He lived alone in his house in Saville Row, whither none penetrated.
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