Jessica Wynn

I mean, you don't even think about it.

It's just this is what I pick something up with.

Right.

Even how you draw can reflect which hand your brain prefers.

Like left handers often sketch people facing the right side of the page, probably because of how the hand moves across the paper.

And it's the opposite for righties.

And this is true for drawings by adults and children.

Yeah, I mean, to a degree.

I mean, the brain is plastic, so you can train it, but most people still have a dominant side.

Cultures, you know, like we were talking about East Germany, they try to control what hand you write and eat with, but it can't control every movement you make in the world.

Evolutionary theories suggest left-handedness might have offered an advantage in combat because opponents weren't prepared to defend themselves from that angle.

I mean, everyone thinks that.

I thought that.

The idea that it's because the left-handed pitcher's arm is on the south side of the diamond.

But the term southpaw showed up in 1813 in a publication called Tickler and

Decades before baseball existed.

They were more innocent about it back then.

Yeah, me too, but it actually originated from boxing.

So historically, north and right were associated with heaven and angels.

South and left, that's the devil's territory.