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  2. Ambidexterity - Wikipedia

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    Ambidextrous receivers can make one-handed catches with either hand; linemen can hold their shoulders square and produce an equal amount of power with both arms; and punters can handle a bad snap and roll out and punt with either leg, limiting the chance of a block.

  3. Activity-dependent plasticity - Wikipedia

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    The brain's ability to adapt toward active functions allows humans to specialize in specific processes based on relative use and activity. For example, a right-handed person may perform any movement poorly with their left hand but continuous practice with the non-dominant hand can cause one to become ambidextrous.

  4. Handedness and sexual orientation - Wikipedia

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    The earlier studies had mostly failed through being too small, a typical study having about 300 homosexual men, and hence being under-powered. That was later confirmed in the large BBC Internet study of sex and sexuality, where 4616 male homosexuals showed a significant excess of left-handedness, with a similar effect found in the 2008 female ...

  5. Bias against left-handed people - Wikipedia

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    Various innocuous activities and experiences become rude or even signs of bad luck when the left hand becomes involved. In some parts of Scotland, it is considered bad luck to meet a left-handed person at the start of a journey. [10] In Ghana, pointing, gesturing, giving or receiving items with the left hand is considered taboo or rude. A ...

  6. Dummy books. ‘Adults only’ sections. Libraries brace for ...

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    The definition of “harmful” materials can also include homosexuality. Idaho libraries have scrambled to prepare for the implementation of a new state law on July 1 that makes them liable for ...

  7. Cross-dominance - Wikipedia

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    Cross-dominance, also known as mixed-handedness, hand confusion, or mixed dominance, is a motor skill manifestation in which a person favors one hand for some tasks and the other hand for others, or a hand and the contralateral leg.

  8. Half of U.S. adults exposed to harmful lead levels as kids - AOL

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    Over 170 million U.S.-born people who were adults in 2015 were exposed to harmful levels of lead as children, a new study estimates. Researchers used blood-lead level, census and leaded gasoline ...

  9. Stereotypes about Black dads are harmful. My husband ... - AOL

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