by Peter | Apr 17, 2026 | brain, handedness, left-right
There at least three answers: It is a ‘medical condition, first described in symptom terms in 1798 by the Scottish physician Sir Alexander Crichton as “the incapacity of attending with a necessary degree of constancy to any one object.” In 1902, the...
by Peter | Jan 27, 2024 | good-bad, left-right, live-die, Nazi
In her account of life in a Nazi concentration camp Isabel Lowy said that Josef Mengele chose who was to live or die by directing prisoners to the left (to die) or the right (to live). Another dreadful instance of ‘right’ being positive and...
