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.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Clyde Francks, a geneticist in the Netherlands, about the latest research into what makes people left or right-handed. If you're left-handed, like me, you know you are ...

We’ve all heard the whispers. Those southpaws among us supposedly have some kind of secret intellectual edge. From Leonardo da Vinci sketching with his left hand to Einstein supposedly jotting down ...

MINNEAPOLIS — What do Lebron James, David Bowie and Bill Gates all have in common? They're left-handed. While they're a minority of the population, they're not alone. So why are we right- or ...

Today, being a lefty is celebrated, but that hasn’t always been the case. People who used their left hands to write, play sports, or eat were seen as bad and were often accused of engaging in ...

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 ...

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared: all four were left-handed. Waiting for them under the tree in ...

Early on in Shih-Ching Tsou's Left-Handed Girl, one of its protagonists, an adorable Taiwanese girl named I-Jing (Nina Ye), is told by her grandpa that her left-handedness is a curse. "Don't use ...