{"id":2801,"date":"2010-08-06T13:42:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T18:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2019-12-15T16:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T21:53:56","slug":"life-is-never-even-handed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=2801","title":{"rendered":"Life Is Never Even-Handed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Southpaw-robthesentinel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2810\" title=\"Southpaw robthesentinel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Southpaw-robthesentinel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Southpaw-robthesentinel.jpg 466w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Southpaw-robthesentinel-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>Chirality (handedness) is intrinsic to life across scales yet surprisingly absent from speculative fiction. The single time I recall a plot point hinging on it is during Mal\u2019s battle with the Operative in <em>Serenity<\/em>. I have decided to explore this attribute in a series, which I will cross-post here and at <em>Science in My Fiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The first article, <em>Southpaws: The Hops in Humanity&#8217;s Beer<\/em>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/simf\/2010\/08\/06\/southpaws-the-hops-in-humanitys-beer\/\">up at SiMF today<\/a>. Versions of it appeared very early on this blog with the title <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=6\"><em>The Left Hand of Light<\/em><\/a> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/athena-andreadis-phd\/southpaws-the-hops-in-hum_b_301062.html\">HuffPo<\/a>. I will follow with articles on carbon compounds (aka organic chemistry), biomolecules, brain lateralization&#8230; in short, whatever falls under the broad rubric of handedness and pleases my left-handed, left-leaning sensibilities!<\/p>\n<p>Image: <em>Southpaw<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/robthesentinel.deviantart.com\/\">RobtheSentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chirality (handedness) is intrinsic to life across scales yet surprisingly absent from speculative fiction. The single time I recall a plot point hinging on it is during Mal\u2019s battle with the Operative in Serenity. I have decided to explore this attribute in a series, which I will cross-post here and at Science in My Fiction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-and-culture","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}