A doctor recently wrote an article on left-handedness in the New York Times. He points out that about ten percent of us are left-handed. Four of our recent presidents are left-handed: the elder Bush, Clinton, Ford, and Obama. My favorite author on the subject of the brain, Jill Bolte Taylor, writes in her book My Stroke of Insight that virtually everyone who is right-handed is left hemisphere dominant. At the same time, that is also true for about 60 percent of people who are left-handed.
The New York Times article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/health/views/08klass.html?_r=3
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