Episode 48

The first of eleven episodes in which Miriam returns to ramble with me on my mind map. The six topics we randomly generated this time were left- and right-handedness, "cultural self-harm", fractality in nature, MK Ultra, ley lines and Conlon Nancarrow. Before getting started on left- and right-handedness, I talk for a while about typography and the comical blurring of context in cartoons.

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Some relevant links:

• Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Life (1965 Tom and Jerry cartoon)
• Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990 cartoon)
• Out of the Inkwell (animated series featuring Koko the Clown)
• Chris McManus, Right Hand, Left Hand (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)
• "Il y a du gauche!" (some notes I compiled a while ago on the etymology of the words for "left" and "right" in several languages)
• sinistral and dextral (snails, etc.)
• Yuval Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harper, 2014)
• the genus of Homo species
• blue manakin (Chiroxiphia caudata)