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You've heard oof french fries but have you heard of Canadian fries 🍟 !?

Well done, we need more of these type of videos. Men are definitely more privileged.

22 years ago today, May 24, 2004, the Sopranos cast members presented David Letterman’s Top 10 category - “Things Never Before Said On The Sopranos”. “I Just Whacked Myself”.

Totally agree with this

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater

BTS of the 1991 'Dinosaurs' sitcom showing how the characters were brought to life using a mix of full-body animatronic suits, radio-controlled facial puppetry etc The show's founder (Jim Henson) was also behind The Muppets and the 1990 Ninja Turtles movie

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.

This is GLORIOUS David Letterman & Stephen Colbert on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theatre bringing back the classic @Letterman routine one last time This is how you go out, @StephenAtHome! 😂 And may @CBS implode literally the same way without you

Happened to me also

@MissyBBBobtail Me too ✋️ 🤓

I just found out I'm not fat - I'm allergic to food. Every time l eat, my body swells. Anyone else?

@GigglingGanon @Gitmo99 This is absolutely heartbreaking ❤️‍🩹 I had a friend murdered by her x-boyfriend. Please share this with someone you know who is living through domestic violence before it’s too late. ⏰

@CarneyPurr67561 Such a handsome guy!!

Today I had purrductive discussions with Nova Scotia's First Meownister Earl Grey, 2015 candidate for PM, leader of the Tuxedo Party and brother of Tuxedo Stan. We discussed interpurrvincial trade and fish imports/exports! 😺🇨🇦

Mike Myers as Mick Jagger and Mick Jagger as Keith Richards has to be one of all-time great Weekend Update bits 😂 (1993)

I spent 5 months in total on these two works, if the algorithm brings these works to you Thank you for supporting me by sharing.

Male gymnasts—including trans men competing in the men’s division—wear comfortable shorts or pants with no problem for judges scoring their form. But biological female gymnasts are stuck in high-cut leotards “for lines and elegance.” It’s tradition reflecting sex differences: grace and flexibility vs. raw power. Why the inconsistency when biological girls ask for the same coverage?

This guy explains how easy it is for creepy internet people to figure out where you are.

Remember Dan Price...that CEO who took a pay cut so he could pay all his employees a minimum annual wage of $70,000? Here’s what happened next: “Six years later after the decision that others said would destroy his business, Dan reports that revenue has tripled, the customer base has doubled, 70% of his employees have paid down debt, many bought homes for the first time, 401(k) contributions grew by 155% and turnover dropped in half. His business is now a Harvard Business School case study.” In his own words: “6 years ago today I raised my company's min annual salary to $70k. Fox News called me a socialist whose employees would be on bread lines. Since then our revenue tripled, we're a Harvard Business School case study & our employees had a 10x boom in homes bought. Always invest in people.” Courtesy of Craig Henley

OTD 15APR1964 The #Beatles second album 'With The Beatles' is number 1 for the 21st and final week (UK New Musical Express chart). Below is 'Not A Second Time' from the ABC Cartoon Series. #TheBeatles

“Please Mister Postman” - The Beatles (1963)

To stop ants coming in to your house leave a saucer of milk outside. The adult ants drink it & it has an effect on ant reproduction. The young are born without toes so they can't climb in to your walls. This effect is called lack toes in toddler ants.