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A right-handed reader finds it easier to judge the temperature of water with their right hand. This could be due to practice, suggest some people, or down to the way we use our left and right hands differently

Milena Bimpong is a member of the Class of 2022 in the College of Arts & Sciences. She is a staff writer for the science department and can be reached at mbimpong@cornellsun.com.

The Covid death toll is too big for Americans brains to handle Research suggests that our inability to understand large numbers plays into how we react to mass deaths. The human brain is not wired to process large numbers. Like the 300,000 Americans we have lost to Covid-19.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images Dec. 16, 2020, 10:31 AM UTC The past year has left us feeling like an overstimulated nerve: Weve been rubbed raw, our sensors deadened, threatening to go fully numb as Covid-19 has killed mo...