I've been thinking a lot about design lately -- next spring I'm teaching a course in the ethics of software design -- and I realized that even something like an iPad cover / stand can be right-handed, in a way.

When the iPad is propped up using the cover in the photo, the home button has to be on the right. But I'm left-handed, so whenever I want to use the home button for the Touch ID, I have to reach across the tablet. It's not hard, but it's slightly awkward.

#design #lefthanded #chirality

11-Jun-2026
People show a natural tendency to walk to the left

... as has been reported in the Guardian as well. There's a bug though. If I enter a room where I want to do a full circle, such as in a museum, I only make one decision, coming in through the door. If I turn left then, I'll have to walk clockwise from then on to follow the walls of the room. So left bias means more right turns?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1131815

#science #humans #asymmetry #chirality #coriolis

#Humans prefer to #walk #AntiClockwise
scientists find – but reason is unclear
From Spain to Japan, experiments have repeatedly shown a left-turn bias, but exact mechanic ‘is still an open question’

1) they must check southern hemisphere!
2) my son who has strong opinions on such things but can't communicate them practically always walks clockwise these days. He used to do longer walks either direction but now it's 30 mins clockwise.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/10/humans-prefer-to-walk-anticlockwise-scientists-find-reason-unclear

#science #chirality #coriolis

“Marvin and the Mint Tea” began as a quiet kitchen-table reflection about flavour, tea, coriander, and why different minds can experience the same world so differently.
It slowly became something else: a gentle exploration of interaction, perception, geometry, and the strange places where meaning appears between object and observer.
Sometimes the universe explains itself more clearly through a cup of mint tea than through a blackboard full of equations. ☕🍃🐾

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BFcMbpZwp/

#HybridMind42 #Marvin #Phase6 #ScienceCommunication #SystemsThinking #ComplexSystems #Perception #Chirality #Interaction #BoundaryFilteredPersistence #CatsOfMastodon #ScientificStorytelling #TeaAndPhysics

https://www.nextplatform.com/hpc/2026/05/06/cleveland-clinic-simulates-large-proteins-with-quantum-centric-supercomputing/5219579

quantum computers can be networked now, more usable qubits will be able to be connected

more 'breakthroughs' will end up happening, things go slow at the start

#ibm #cleveland clinic #folding #enzymes #trypsin #catalysts #sims #merck index #buffer systems #chirality #nextplatform.com

"Origin of switchable #quasiparticle-interference #chirality in loop-current phase of #kagome metals measured by scanning-tunneling-microscopy"

"Here, we reveal theoretically that a pronounced chiral quasiparticle interference signal emerges in the extremely dilute impurity regime ( ≲ 0.1%)."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64588-4