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@ihtesham2005 This is just common sense

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.

NAACP has been on fraud watch for over a century. But today they are now open enemies. Who tf do you think you are to tell anyone’s child what they should be doing?! Fucking fascist.

At 32 I’m having so many realizations that I fear what I’ll know at 42.

@CalebFromX Why is “the culture” with them. This is Black American music. Just say our name. Got damn

Ebro & Peter Rosenberg TAKE ISSUE W/Drake lyrics on ICEMAN: “Drake has too many white [fans] who feel no guilt. He has white fans who don’t feel guilty when they say the N-Word.” Ebro Adds, “You’re triggered by a guy who is irresponsible w/ his platform.. What the [culture] represents he doesn’t take care of.” Via - ELR

@Strandjunker America is a Christian nation. A nation built on escaping Catholic tyranny. Fleeing the Spanish Reconquista. That’s what we were taught in school before they removed the national anthem and bibles. Now all that history is being erased as if we aren’t a nation of Protestants.

Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

@fiercepatricks They see homosexuality as more than sin. They see it as a curse/iniquity. A continuous departure from what is right. They’re wrong. But that’s what they believe. They’re antiquated.

Why is homosexuality constantly singled out, while adultery is literally listed in God's Ten Commandments and often gets overlooked?

Black people are still sometimes afraid of non-black people. That conditioning from Jim Crow didn’t completely fade away and it makes me furiously sad.

@ItsMrsRabbitToU Yeah. I don’t come from no monkey in Africa. The bible refers to the Father and Mother being equal. This is trying its best to make fathers less than. As we are spirit not flesh. Earthly knowledge seems to always be changing, right?

Well now. Isn’t this interesting. So much for the patriarchy.

I’m probably the only black person who was acquitted after beating up a violent Jewish family. The NYC DA is afraid of me because of that. They should. Because I still want my justice. Not just acquittal.

PSA for Jews; Americans didn’t commit the holocaust! Americans didn’t commit the holocaust! Americans didn’t commit the holocaust! Americans didn’t commit the holocaust! Americans didn’t commit the holocaust! Americans didn’t commit the holocaust!

@PopBase “I’m getting you ready for what’s coming” 😂😂😂😂

Nika King reacts to her lack of screentime in ‘Euphoria’ Season 3: “My mom over here clowning me, she said the internet waited all this time for me to just say one line… three years”

@Phil_Lewis_ Black athletes don’t do it. If you weren’t an athlete these black folks wouldn’t spit on you if you were on fire! Don’t do it!

@Phil_Lewis_ Why they gotta sacrifice? That’s insane. Leave them alone. Your old asses should have made sure we had everything in place instead of shucking and jiving for Barack Obama. Yall partied for 8 years instead of getting him to write meaningful legislation. Leave them kids alone!

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

@ifiwerearoy @Phil_Lewis_ How is it slow because you want black men to fight for you and your stupid fear mongering? Leave them the fuck alone. You go risk everything! You do it! Risk your career!

@BScale101 @Phil_Lewis_ This is such a slow ass take

@EricB_noRakim @Phil_Lewis_ Counseling your ass to go out there and sacrifice your life and career>>>>

@BScale101 @Phil_Lewis_ counseling athletes with leverage to avoid unsafe spaces ≠ sacrificing…that’s actually for their own good

@he_is_dre @Phil_Lewis_ No. You could have fixed it. Yall sat around soft balling a president and handling him with kid gloves for 8 years while black people were being killed in the streets every other day by the police.

@BScale101 @Phil_Lewis_ The fix was keeping people out of office. But idiots like you say stupid shit like “he could’ve fixed it” but can never say how. Because you’re making things up 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@he_is_dre @Phil_Lewis_ Idc. Stop talking to me. I said what the fuck I said. Like your opinion doesn’t matter shit.

@BScale101 @Phil_Lewis_ Whether the shoe fits for not, you were lying and making things up. I didn’t say nothing can fix it. You can’t read. You’re a dumb bitch. Legislation can always be undone. That’s just reality. You idiots live in a fantasy. He didn’t have magical powers 🤣🤣🤣

@he_is_dre @Phil_Lewis_ If the shoe doesn’t fit stfu. Also if nothing can fix then WTF ever because nothing can fix it right. Go live with that. Coward. “No legislation would’ve prevented this” cowards.

@BScale101 @Phil_Lewis_ But you don’t ask what anyone else’s age is. You make all these assumptions about everyone else, with zero facts to back them, but then say your assumptions don’t apply to you. Besides, kid, no legislation would’ve prevented this, as what they struck down was already legislation

@DameofDissolute @Phil_Lewis_ Don’t tell me to hush bitch

@BScale101 @Phil_Lewis_ Girl hush.

@smooth357 No. The voters were. The people who were suppose to hold him accountable instead of dancing for 8 years. You soft balled him at every corner and now you’re crying about your voting rights being taken. Have fun. Leave the kids alone.

@BScale101 So that it is clear, President Obama was supposed to fix 242 years of crap in eight years. Is that your opinion? Why are you emotional?

@he_is_dre @Phil_Lewis_ I was a kid. And I was still out there protesting him ruining my city of Detroit. Triangulating on us with the government to destroy our home ownership. Closing down major neighborhood schools. I’ll never forget.

@BScale101 @Phil_Lewis_ Lmao I love when yall say dumb shit like this. Why didn’t YOU get him to write meaningful legislation? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Y’all love to accuse people of what YOU did 🤣🤣🤣🤣