Nils Ian Bland

I just wanna skateboard

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.

Ok now have his boss who makes 4x his salary ask him how to save a pdf

It’s happening…

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Keir Starmer’s speech in a nutshell: 1. Anyone who criticises me is dangerous and wrong 2. I’m right. You just don’t realise it yet. 3. I will cling on to power. I’ll work even harder doing the same crap things and nothing will change. 4. I have no vision, just empty rhetoric.

Suomessa myytiin tammi-huhtikuussa jokaisena kuukautena alle 90 uutta asuntoa. Siis koko maassa. Vuonna 2025 myynti jäi kerran alle 100 asunnon (tammikuussa). Aiemmin näin matalia lukuja ei ole nähty.

A six-minute VAR delay with 25 replays to decide which of the multiple set-piece wrestling manoeuvres was clearly and obviously worthy of punishment. A fittingly decisive moment for the 2025-26 Premier League season.

PGMOL are a disgrace. They started this 18 months ago when it was ok to foul the keeper and now they change the rule at the end of the season and dictate the title on it. Disgrace

When sexually aroused by a woman men want to have sex with that woman. Psychologists: 🤯

@Ankaman616 He's shocking

Joshua Zirkzee does not have the necessary levels of DAWG for this. He's self described as a 9.5 but he doesn't have the consistency in his actions to make up for how languid he can be on the ball. For such a tall player, he doesn't look to dominate and use his body consistently.

Sweden has Stage 5 Suicidal Empathy.

"You want to really make a pandemic, make hantavirus human transmissible" > posted in 2012

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

You're drinking out of paper straws so shithole countries can do this...

Joko nyt hitaimmallekin alkaa valjeta, että EU ei ole mikään “demokratian linnake”, vaan totalitaristinen ylikansallinen peto, joka haluaa kontrolloida mitä saat ajatella ja sanoa? Digital Services Act -sensuuripaketti etenee täyttä vauhtia, ja Kokoomuksen oma eurovaikuttaja Henna Virkkunen on ollut innokkaasti viemässä sitä eteenpäin. Samat kokoomusglobalistit, jotka ovat jo vuosikausia Suomessa tukahduttaneet sekä sananvapautta että valinnanvapautta, jatkavat nyt Brysselissä samaa hommaa eurooppalaisella skaalalla. Nyt EU haluaa estää VPN:ien käytön. Miettikääpä sitä hetki. Venäjällä, siinä EU:n haukkumassa Putinin diktaattorivaltiossa, tavallinen pulliainen voi edelleen kiertää Kremlin sensuurin VPN:llä. Mutta EU:ssa, vapaan maailman lippulaivassa, se pitääkin kieltää. Kun EU-komissio huutaa X:ssä ”vapaa media” ja ”kerro totuus”, se on pelkkää Goebbels-tyylistä propagandaa. Juuri näin valheista tulee ”totuus” ihmisten mielissä. EU säätää lakia toisensa jälkeen sananvapauden tukahduttamiseksi samalla kun teeskentelee suojelevansa sitä. EU ei puolusta totuutta, vaan se haluaa hallita sitä. Kun EU:n eliitti joutuu käyttämään samoja työkaluja kuin Kiina ja Iran pitääkseen kansalaiset oikean tiedon ulkopuolella, niin ehkäpä se “eurooppalaiset arvot” -tarina on viimein tullut tiensä päähän. Tämä ei ole demokratiaa. Tämä on kansalaisten digitaalista valvontaa. Ja Kokoomus on siinä eturintamassa liputtamassa.

This fraud was asked in every pre election interview, “How will you pay for all of these “free” programs you’re proposing?” He never gave a straight answer. He just insisted, we will get it. Now? He’s crying about a budget crisis. NYrs are idiots.

Europeans watching China open 50 additional new coal powered energy plants in 2025 adding 78GW to their grid.

Socialists Eventually Run Out Of Other People’s Money (With Mamdani it happened fast)

One more year, one more year @Casemiro 💪🏼

only 4 more games with unc casemiro