Maria Popova

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman · Maria Popova · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

The vast, vast, vast majority of snails coil clockwise.

And he found in a pile of garbage how he noticed.

That's another, it's a little homily on the art of noticing, right?

First of all, he saw the snail, saw that it coiled the other way and thought, hmm.

So then he mailed the snail and

with some, you know, dirt and sustenance, to a snail researcher.

I love that there are people that just research snails, by the way.

Oh, God, the lovely thing about science is that it is this refuge for the strangeness and the multiplicity of minds.

I mean, the most wonderful thing about being human is how many minds there are.

Yeah.

So anyway, one of those minds was studying snails and received the snail, named it Jeremy for some English politician who was on the left.

I guess I'm not versed in British politics.

And said that the odds of this happening are about one in a million to one to a billion.

It's so rare they can't even estimate how rare it is.

And it's caused by a condition called citizen versus where the internal organs are

by a genetic variant that's very rare, obviously, are flipped.

So humans have this.

I know someone who has his heart on the right side.

He has citizen versus.

But with snails, the tricky thing is that because of how they mate, please, everybody, go on YouTube and look up Sir David Attenborough snails.

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