Soiree Croque Monsieur

"Soiree Croque Monsieur"

sounds so much nicer than

"Ya'll want some grilled cheese?"

Graphing the Last 200 Years

Now, this is the way to learn and think about things!  My father-in-law sent me this link and I shared it with my brother who then found the original web app:  http://www.gapminder.org/world/  
where you can slice and dice the data yourself anyway you want.  Every time I watch it, I notice something new!

Flukes, Flounder, and Handedness

You'd rather "flounder" around (right eye fish) than simply be a "fluke"  (left-eye fish), correct?  Or, should I say "right?"

You'd rather be adroit and dextrous (french and italian for right) than gauche and sinister (french and italian for left), wouldn't you?

In many cultures, you only shake hands with your right hand (the left being reserved for "dirty" jobs (see bullet point #4 here)).

How about that poor minority group, the lefties:  forever being thwarted by the placement of handles and utensils? 

I'd rather be your "right hand man" than "out in left field"!

It turns out that life on Earth is left-handed!  So maybe all this bias against leftness is just our attempt to make up for the gross imbalance at the molecular level.  No one knows for sure the reason life chose left-handed DNA over right-handed, but then again - no one knows why the universe chose matter over antimatter.  No only is life not fair and balanced, but the universe itself is not.  I should forgive these cultural biases, all left already!