Oscar Stainton

Many thanks to @IanMcKellen and @ParkTheatre for this inspirational moment with the man himself. I'm still in awe after shaking hands!

@ttorroo @MaraBrownWD You're right, no such pterosaur has been found in the fossil record. Not yet at any rate. But if it were to be, its genus name would start with 'T' and be given the species name 'rex'.

@Albion_93 @MaraBrownWD thats a good idea tho.. but unfortunately we dont know that kind of animal existed back then

Meet the Rexes (The Kings) Tyrannosaurus rex (The King of the land) and Tylosaurus rex (the King of the sea) 😍😍😍😍 and now who is going to be the “rex” of the air ?

You just need to find someone to be brave for 🥹 #projecthailmary

Adding to this: Do not create for the approval of others. Your art is not required to feed everyone. Create for your heart. The world is full of people who will listen and enjoy what your muse has to say, no matter what the message or meaning is.

Mr. Cabrera meeting Gina for the first time. #animation

Happy International Dinosaur Day🕊️🦖🦕 #paleoart #dinosaur

I put the latest dinosaur from Thailand on "nature cover" hires/textless on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/15870576… Congratulations to P'Perth Thitiwoot on your research and achievement krub!

what is this? some sort of... 'time of the titans'? (individual animals in the thread below) a tribute to the late Ben Bartlett #WalkingWithBenBartlett

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

the most maddening part about ai in a work setting is how managers are willing to accept completely subpar work created by ai that they would NEVER in a million years accept from a real person

I’d love too, but CG shows are expensive and a broadcaster needs to come on board. Fingers crossed one of the streaming services will commission some new time travelling adventures with me.

@ShinyResurgence Wait wait wait Mammoths -Humans Modern Elephants - Elves Mastodons -Dwarves Gomphotheres - Orcs Paleoloxodon - Giants Probiscidean fantasy setting when???

“I know of no pleasure deeper than that which comes from contemplating the natural world and trying to understand it.”- David Attenborough

They removed CD/DVD drives from devices. They made physical media harder to buy and use. They removed expandable storage from phones. They pushed us into streaming subscriptions. They made always-online normal. They made unlimited internet necessary. Then slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

Definitely curious on if there will be a sequel or another Dinosaur film influenced by The End of Oak Street that'll have a city time displaced like Dino Crisis 2. Art by @arihinoko

Happy Thursday! Check out this beautiful footage of the Baby Stegosaurus on set for The Lost World: Jurassic Park. I can honestly say that the footage recorded by Todd has been some of the most beautiful things we have. They truly capture the magic and awe of JP and cinema.

All it took was 15 minutes

@guy75700the @IsaiahCTorre He's had all this time to learn about the damage AI has brought about already. A man of his position and influence cannot use ignorance as an excuse. I say this as someone whose life was genuinely changed by his LotR trilogy.

@IsaiahCTorre He just doesn’t know all the negative effects AI can cause and it’s place in our economic period so we need to remind exactly why everyone hates AI for him to understand that it’s Not a special effect

Oh goddamnit Peter.