So this is random, but we have an ear thermometer, and I usually measure both ears. I have a consistent temperature difference between my ears of about 0.6 degrees--and my left is always warmer than my right. Any theories as to why this is so?

Theory #1: You talk on your cell phone a lot and hold it to your left ear, thus warming it slightly with radiation.
Theory #2: You take your temperature upon waking, after sleeping on your left side.
Theory #3: It might have something to do with the cat on your left shoulder.
Theory #4: Aye, matey, it be the parrot that sits on yon shoulder. Arrrrr!
Theory #5: There is no theory #5.
Theory #6: It's only been that way since you shaved all the hair off the right side of your head.
Theory #7: I theorize that 6 theories is enough.

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If I may go off at a slight ear-related tangent: a Japanese friend told me some interesting facts about cultural ear cleaning differences. Apparently in Japan they do not clean out their ears with a cotton bud/Q Tip but with a long wooden pointy stick, which gets wiped and reused after each clean. Not only that, but each family has only one ear cleaning stick, which they share. Another thing - allegedly the consistency of Japanese ear wax is different from that of a Western person, being more dry and flaky as opposed to our waxy wax (!). The only thing I can think of that could account for this is a different diet, perhaps because in Japan they consume a significantly smaller quantity of dairy products.

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As you were

Oh, so that's what those cocktail sticks in the bathroom were for in Narita...haha

My boyfriend used to have MAJOR wax in his ears...like he had to have them syringed and stuff...eww!! But since he became a vegetarian he hardly gets any wax at all! So I reckon diet definitely has a lot to do with it. They don't eat nearly as much meat in their diet, and you're right, hardly any dairy. Since we became vegan, my bofyfriends asthma has magically disappeared, too. He used to use a preventer inhaler every day and a blue inhaler several times a day but now he hasn't used any inhalers for months. Another interesting fact...in China they hardly have any dairy in their diets, but osteoporosis is pretty much non-existent there...

oh sorry for the pro-veggie tangental rambling!

I forgot to say that maybe you are 'left-brained', I wonder if your left-hemisphere is more active and so makes one side of your head slightly warmer!!

@Pipster: Interestingly, my brother has the wet type of wax, whereas the females in my family have the dry type. Because I don't have the wet type, it's horrifically and fascinatingly gross to me when my brother gets his ears cleaned. How in the world does he hear??

Oh, and we have the little stick ear cleaners too! They're very good, though xphia and I don't use the same one if we can help it. In Taiwan (I think?), ear cleaning is an art, with ear cleaners using a variety of little tools to excavate the ears. If you get a really good one, it's allegedly comparable to good sex.

@Sakura, that was one of my possible conclusions, along with the idea that maybe I walk on a slant.