Why is clockwise Clockwise? (2008)

It certainly makes sense for an object encircling you. For a wall clock it then comes down to whether you imagine yourself standing out from the wall on the clock face, or if you are burried into the wall. The first is perhaps the most obvious imagination chosen by most people.

> It seems to be a peculiarity of our human nature that if we are watching the movement of a stick's shadow, that we face north to do so.

No, it just logic. If you're standing south of the stick (facing north), the stick's shadow will move in (roughly) a half-circle throughout the day, starting at the left of the stick, moving right and up (while contracting) to vertical (pointing north), and then extending further to the right until it reaches (almost) east. It will be shorter in the summer and longer in the winter. You could also watch this "from above" (north of the stick, facing south), but if you're south of the stick, looking at the movement of the shadow in the half circle is quite similar to looking at the movement of the sun in the sky (except in the opposite direction).

Most things are reversed if you're in the southern hemisphere.

Are you @SavedYouAClick from twitter?

I don't believe it was generated. Knowing that SoverNet is a internet provider for northern NY and especially VT, I am assuming that this was 'hand-crafted' using a simple (circa 2000) table format with BR elements blocking it out. A quick bit of sleuthing about the author seems to corroborate my assumptions.

Regarding the questions at the bottom, much of this is believed to do with one leg being more dominant than the other.

The stronger leg may take longer strides. This manifests in surprising emergent phenomena. Grocery stores for instance tend to be laid out so you enter on the right by the veggies and circle around the back to the meats and dairies and come around the left to check out.

This isn't just limited to humans. Bees will spiral CCW when climbing. Wounded deer tend to drift left after being shot.

Simone Kosig's conclusion is even more surprising: "The basic driver behind this phenomenon seems to be the fact that all cells in nature are composed of amino acids which have a left spin. Chemists can manufacture amino acids with a right spin, yet we can't use them. Apparently both types of amino acids existed in the primordial soup at the beginning of life hundreds of million years ago. Yet life developed only from those with a left spin. The favorite theory is that at that time - when the earth did not yet have the protective ozone shield - radioactive rays from the cosmos did more harm to the amino acids with a right spin. Yet why those with a left spin would be more protected - if at all - is still a mystery."[1]

[1] http://www.somatics.de/artikel/for-professionals/2-article/2...