DIRECTION OF WHIRLPOOLS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 6

DIRECTION OF WHIRLPOOLS

j Ts there any connection between the I instinctive mo\einer.t to the left of a rishtI handed person and that of the clo.-kwi-e direction of whirlpools and river current*. aI olv-rrvod Jiy the Waimak.sriri River Tm-t and jof wat.-r down a plu:» liole remarked upon by I your correspondent Mr. F. I>. Field': I- thi* I rlorkwUc movement from ripht To left not | in harmony with that of the -;in from e.i-: to we-l? Darwin -stated that i"-t '•> per ?••:: of hi.;.- twine fro:n let' to ri'jht and th.it ~> j>er c-i'\): of i r>-ter- are lefr-hat'ded. T':v percentage of hunian chiMien. born with a ; t-tronter con-titntional bias to u-e the Ff" , h.uid 1- a' ■> ~> \ : '" ren:. thevfore t'fe - •- i majority. '.>."> per cent.'are fight-handed, with 'the speed) centre. Brrcj.- convolution. •■ - '-■'■ left hemisphere of the brain. In expi.t .'.ilr.z jto -tamniorer- T 'e p;eat harm t :;.■>.; i"i '>'"" | done by compelling a left-handel ehil-1 to write v-\'h hi- ri.h: hand 1 u-e the ■ '".i".--jtration* and -how that it i- \<: .■.;:-•.• •»"" the i strong ur.:e of the right hand : • mo\e f; ,- i" i l ight to left that a :n.-.n wit .": i _".," ! will prefer to carry a weight on hi* F't ■ shoulder. But unlike the dl' t" ..; J whirlpool, that d"e~ not alter v. hen he chanzc-s |to another hemi-phere I ivi.i:' ■•• ', ■ :'•■• ■'".' - jtion of vine-twining different in the no: r'.iern j and the r- nitheri' hemi-mieicfv iMr.-.i m. \v. av. >p::-:k>.