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@k1myojong I just repaired a hole in my jean jacket with this

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.

Why can't we have a bike lane on Chambers Street to connect the Brooklyn Bridge to the Hudson River Greenway? Blame the rampant placard abuse and illegal parking, @GershKuntzman explains.

Getting older is realizing that Mao did absolutely nothing wrong

@hasanthehun It's also why the Taylor Law stops almost all public unions in NYS from striking.

they were trying to secure a fair contract for three years, the state conceded in three days. this is why they dont want you to unionize your workplace

@CuriosityonX We can eat the AI they're making with all those data centers, right?

🚨: The 2026 “Super El Niño” is projected to be the strongest in 150 years

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote. “I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’” “I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

It's all under that hat. Inside the world of filmmaker Boots Riley. I LOVE BOOSTERS opens in theaters Friday.

☢️ A Utah physics professor just compared the proposed Utah Stratos AI data center to 23 nuclear bombs a day- and the math actually checks out!! 🤯 🔹 Stratos Campus: 16–17 GW thermal load/ 1,468 TJ/day released 🔹 Hiroshima = 63 TJ 🔹 That's 23.3 bombs/day of heat! ⚠️SAY NO!

A large number of Jews in the UK and millions of Jews globally are furious and disgusted at the way the issue of antisemitism is weaponised by Israel and the Western Establishment You never hear THESE Jews on @BBCNews ⁦@BBCr4today⁩ The BBC is complicit

Libs, Governor CIA sucks. Actually, all your CIA girl bosses suck.

I promised. I delivered. My debunking of Israel’s latest reboot of the 7 October mass-rapes hoax: A "landmark" report built from old claims, liars and grifters, repackaged for complicit media. No victim count. No case list. No evidence of mass rapes. electronicintifada.net/content/israel…

Piers Morgan is a Zionist propagandist, whether it’s his imperial British racism or just bending to Zio power. He immediately jumped on this trash, like a dog to a bone. The story was debunked the same day. None of these Israeli allegations have held, no matter how many prominent assholes try to make it stick. The only rape stories that are backed by overwhelming evidence and testimony are those committed against Palestinian hostages, men, women, and children.

a short list of celebrities you should ignore when they preach about AI

A chap on radio on Saturday night said, 'If Labour choose a leader who is Labour Friends of Israel...that would be about as popular as being Labour Friends of Fred & Rose West'

🚨🇮🇱🇵🇸An elderly Israeli woman assaults a pregnant woman simply because she is Palestinian. WTF!!🤬

"I look at these [Hollywood celebrities] who have absolutely every privilege imaginable to mankind, and they cannot utter a single word.’ Hannah Einbinder speaks about the cowardice of Hollywood on the Gaza genocide contrasted with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s bravery.

Jewish students and faculty at NYU hosted a Passover Seder for community members that stand in solidarity with Palestinians. They’re now under investigation by the University. We warned NYU that enforcing ideology conformity within a protected group violates civil rights law.

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Braden Looper

Just had this disgusting leaflet put through my letterbox portraying Polanski as an Islamist by someone from Reform. I check on my Ring cam and it turns out this is my old primary school teacher who was sacked for noncing. Couldn’t make it up.

Obama is unveiling an $850 million shrine to himself - funded by Wall Street tycoons, a health insurer & tech moguls that got rich during his tenure as millions were foreclosed on & as billionaires now fleece America. Presidential shrines are monuments to oligarchy - pass it on