by Peter | May 27, 2026 | brain, education, hand, left-right, write
Saying “I know which is my left hand because I write with it!” is is not an expected justification for knowing the left from the right hand. More typically one hears “I know my right hand because I write with it!” And as such, the left / write...
by Peter | Apr 28, 2026 | brain, education, hand, write
This paper, I Don’t Know What’s Right and What’s Wrong : Parent Perceptions of Support and Progress of Their Children With Handwriting Difficulties was published by Literacy UKLA vol 60 Issue 2 This study was to understand parents’ perceptions...
by Peter | Nov 4, 2025 | hand, music, neuro-divergent
The more familiar phrase is the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. This familiar version has come to mean that in any company, business or familar organisation communication is so bad that people don’t know what the others are doing. The origin...
by Peter | Feb 8, 2024 | hand, man, right, Roman, warfare
The phrase ‘right hand man’ is a memory of fighting in a shield wall. Most warriors were right handed, and when they raised their sword arm to strike a blow, they exposed their ribs to the thrust of a spear or an enemy sword. The defensive role of the...
by admin | Jun 19, 2023 | eye, hand
Source: BBC4 The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs (20/11/2023) [44:44 minutes in]. Context: Discussion between Zbigniew Brzezinski (President Jimmy Carter’s National Adviser) and Menachem Begin (Israel Prime Minister) over returning Sinai back to Egypt...
