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Cellphone Use May Reveal Your 'Dominant Brain'
West Bloomfield Township :: MI :: USA | 1 month ago
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New research suggests the dominant side of your brain may make the call on which ear you choose to use while talking on your cellphone. The dominant side of your brain is where your speech and language center resides. Ninety-five percent of the human
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Brain Makes Call on Which Ear Is Used for Cell Phone
Charlottesville :: VA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Description If you're a left-brain thinker, chances are you use your right hand to hold your cell phone up to your right ear, according to a newly published study from Henry Ford Hospital in
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Thatcher successful against righties and lefties
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Relief pitcher Joe Thatcher fully understands and even embraces his role as a left-handed specialist, but there are times when he wouldn't mind a different title. "I think I'm more than just a lefty specialist," Thatcher said. In a relatively small
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Study: Chicks really dig men with guitars
Boston :: MA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Researchers at the University of Bretagne-Sud and the University of Paris-Sud enlisted the aid of an attractive young man who approached 300 women between the ages of 18 and 22 and ask them for their phone number, according to the Counsel & Heal
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Rangers notes: Derek Holland looking to keep inconsistencies in the past
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 1 month ago
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Over the past few seasons, Derek Holland could be called Mr. Inconsistent...Holland is focused and driven to drop that label this season and has gotten off to a promising start to do just that. The Rangers have won three of the four games Holland has
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Left-Handedness Stumps Science
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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Published April 17, 2013 LiveScience They make up a stable fraction of the population, yet their presence is often invisible: left-handers. Yet despite decades of research, very little is known about why some people are left-handed. Scientists have
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Canadian baseball's lefty leanings linked to national game
Calgary :: Canada | 3 months ago
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Last year, Baseball Canada showed 11 Canadian position players on Major League rosters and, of those, six hit left-handed and one was a switch-hitter...The answer, experts believe, is that most quintessentially Canadian pastime hockey.
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Girls Lefties, Boys Righties?
Moscow :: Russia | 4 months ago
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LiveScience Humans aren't the only creatures that prefer to use one hand over the other. Now, a new study finds that marsupials that run about on all fours have paw preferences, too. In particular, sugar gliders and gray short-tailed opossum females
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Are gorillas left-handed or right-handed?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Sometimes it seems clear that scientists are just using experiments as a way to get close to cute animals. This seems particularly the case of the multiple handedness experiments that have been carried out on primates over the years. Find out which
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Sox's Peavy no fan of fake pickoff ban
Glendale :: AZ :: USA | 4 months ago
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The Major League Baseball Players Association was against the ban, but MLB used its powers under the Basic Agreement to enforce the rule after receiving support from managers, adding that the fake throw deceives the runner or the batter. Peavy said
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