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Well, it's 1:00am, it's late, and I've been studying for exams ... so at this point, almost anything is funny. I was going through my various news sources and came across this article entitled "Left-handers win in hand-to-hand combat" from the New Scientist.

"Left-handed people may be better equipped for close range mortal combat than those who rely on their right hands, according to researchers ... They discovered a correlation between levels of violence and the proportion of the left-handed population – the more violent a culture, the higher the relative proportion of left-handers. The cause for this, the researchers suggest, is that left-handers are more likely to survive hand-to-hand combat."

That led me thinking ... how did these scientists prove this theory? My conclusion was they must have had an arena where they'd pit a left-handed person against a right-handed person in an epic fight to the death, and see who won. Then they'd repeat this experiment a few thousand times until they were sure that their hypothesis was correct.

I'm sure it would have looked and sounded something like this (Macromedia Flash required, clip contains audio):

(Dedicated to Myron.... hehe)

Nothing like a classic Star Trek fight to the death. In conclusion, I'm going to think twice before I decide to pick a fight with left-handed people.