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 ...

From U.S. presidents to elite athletes, lefties have turned what was once a stigma into a surprising advantage.

There was a time when left-handed people were actively oppressed. People were punished for being left-handed, and left-handed children were forced to use their right hands. But we no longer do ...

Brain scans indicate that left-handed people think differently from right-handed people. They tend to activate the right half of their brain more for certain tasks and functions. Experts suggest that ...

A recent photo in The Express-Times (April 10) shows two nurses writing with their left hands. I have always been left-handed and remember writing with my left hand on my first day in grade school. My ...