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Joshua Kitonga, 34, is among the left-handed people who have faced challenges growing up. [Courtesy] Joshua Kitonga is among the 789 million people globally who are left-handed. Research shows ...

From minimal access to left handed tools like scissors, to even the building of infrastructure with only right handed people in mind, many left handed people know, first hand, just how much the world ...

Have you heard the common trope that left-handed people are more successful in creative endeavors? There are plenty of anecdotal examples to make the case: Michelangelo, Albert Einstein, Paul ...

Left-handedness has always been something of a mystery. If you’re among the roughly 10 percent of the population that favors their left hand, you’ve probably heard all kinds of theories about your ...

THE LEFT-HANDED have long struggled in a right-handed world. But they are over-represented in one field: one-to-one sports such as fencing and tennis. The conventional explanation for this is that the ...

The first time I realized I was different from other boys and girls was in kindergarten, when I discovered I couldn’t cut with the same scissors they used. Learning to write was a challenge, since my ...

For decades, popular wisdom has held that left-handed people have a natural edge when it comes to creativity. But, according to new research from Cornell University, the link between left-handedness ...

Have you ever noticed how some people write, eat, or throw a ball with their left hand? Left-handed people make up only a small part of the world’s population, which makes them pretty special.