From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.

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Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Nora McNerney and I am your guest host today because I have things to say about this topic.

Um. So, I am left-handed.

Always have been, always will be.

I did not know that being left-handed was unusual growing up because my mother is left-handed,

my father was left-handed.

My siblings were left-handed. That's not entirely true. I have

one right-handed brother, and we thought he was the weirdo. I thought he was unusual for using

his right hand. Why would you use the right one? The left one is right there. Then I went to kindergarten.

And back in the day, this is the 80s people, there were right-handed scissors and there were

left-handed scissors. And if you think our little school had any left-handed scissors

ready and waiting for a little left-handed kid in art class, you are sorely

mistaken, and my hand was sore, period, from trying to jam it into a scissor that was shaped

for a specific kind of hand. I don't know if that's a relatable problem anymore, but it was strange.

Evan from San Francisco gets it. I hope he

doesn't get the scissor thing. I hope we have as a society moved past that, but he wrote to us

wondering why it's more common to be right-handed than it is to be left-handed. Thank you, Evan,

for asking the hardhanded. Thank you, Evan, for asking the hard questions.

Hi, my name is Evan, and my question is why it's more common to be right-handed than left-handed.

Hi, my name is Alex Claxton, and I am a paleontologist.

That means I study animals and people that have been dead for a very long time.

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