Left Handers
Created By: kinet
Last Modified: 12/02/05
Summary: All about this misunderstood minority of society.Thumbs up for Left-Handers Day
Left Handers Day, Aug 13th 2002
Link: The Left Hand Zone
Summary: Left Hand Zone specializing in gifts, gadgets, school supplies, novelties and many useful products designed to be used with the left hand. Lefties no longer have to adapt to right-handed products in an awkward way.
Wonderful World of Lefty
Summary: Everything left handers want, need or would like to have.
From: http://www.southpaw-solutions.com/body.htmTeaching Left-Handers to Write
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Summary: Because the act of writing involves the whole arm, tilting the paper affords a writer the most efficient and comfortable position for the wrist, elbow, and shoulder.
From: http://handedness.org/action/leftwrite.htmlThe Way your Brain is Organized
Summary: The brain is "cross-wired" so that the left hemisphere controls the right handed side of the body and vice-versa and hand dominance is connected with brain dominance on the opposite side - which is why we say that only left-handers are in their right minds!
From: http://www.lefthander.com/being.htmLink: Left Handedness:
Summary: Curse, Blessing or Anomaly of Nature?
Around ten percent of
Americans are left-handed, and of those, there are twice as many lefty
males as females. Cats and parrots have general tendencies toward their left
paws and claw; rats and monkeys tend to be right-pawed. A study of
ultrasound pictures of 270 fetuses (from 1 month to 9 months) revealed that
92% sucked their right thumb while in the womb.
Link: The Left-handed Syndrome
Summary: An excerpt from the book "The Left handed Syndrome."
Link: Left-Hander: Living in the Mirror
Summary: Welcome to "Being Left-Handed." Whether you're left-handed, right-handed, no-handed, or ambidextrous, I hope you'll find something of interest to you here.
Link: The Left Hand
Summary: An on-line store for left-handers. Here you will find a unique selection of useful left-handed products and a few other items of interest.
Link: Left-Handers in Society
Summary: Reading through these pages offers parents, teachers, physicians, employers, co-workers, manufacturers, service providers, and design engineers a glimpse of the world from the perspective of a non-right-hander.
Link: Left Handed Products
Summary: Information and products designed with left handers in mind.
International Left-Handers Day
13 August
13 August
Link: Famous Left handers
Summary: A list of famous left-handers, including U.S. Presidents, authors, musicians, artists, actors, athletes and politicians. This page can be viewed in English, Spanish or pig Latin.
Jetpak: Brain Business
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e2160556-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2fSummary: Do we really only use 10% of our brain? And what about this right brain/left brain theory?
Did you know that a person's left hand does 56% of the typing? This is because the letters that are most commonly used like 'e', 's' and 't' are on the left side of the keyboard.
