Brittany Kennedy

For the record, this is how I want to die.

Guiris de vacaciones.

@CoraCHarrington @Missy_dee811 Hermitage right here…oh and the Peterhof palace.

@Missy_dee811 The 1903 Romanov Ball for me

This is how I felt the first time I saw fabergé eggs

I’m declaring it the summer of “toujours fun.”

As someone who can barely get college student with high levels to speak because of anxiety (their words not mine), I am loving every bit of this. Just use the words you have and the confidence god gave you.

Hace 20 años pensaban que nos moríamos de hambre y que íbamos a hacer fila para estar con ellos y ahora fetichizan nuestros países como "paraísos blancos". 🤡🤡

@CoraCHarrington @Missy_dee811 That’s absolutely the deal and it’s of no surprise to me it’s the economists pulling this shit.

@Missy_dee811 I cited 199 sources in my thesis and read every single one. I thought that was the deal.

You could not waterboard this out of me 😭 So many PhDs telling us they don't know how to fucking do the thing they're being paid to do which is research

@sivoisx Eskerrik asko!

@WaveProfesora Zorionak!!

Said I was going to finish the A1.2 book before I get to Donsoti. I have 9 pages of the last chapter in the workbook left and a 9 hour flight. Let’s goazen!!!!!!!!!

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.

Puro romanticismo. Nunca he encontrados un dinosaurio entero en la vida real.

i am calling for a complete and total shut down on new yorker articles until we can figure out what the hell is going on

Ibiza antes de convertirse en filtro de Instagram: cal, gasolina, persianas verdes y gente que todavía sabía perder el tiempo. — Ibiza, años 70. Fotografía de Walter Rudolph.

An incredible poet, murdered too soon. "He has been called 'an absolute genius' by Toni Morrison, who as a commissioning editor at Random House published posthumous collections both of his poetry, Play Ebony, Play Ivory, and his short stories, Ark of Bones, in 1974."

i feel like nobody is ever going to be happy about how europeans chose to have less money in exchange for having more social services and free time but alas, seems like it's that way

Good morning and good morning only to the avocado green dishwasher put out on the curb of St Charles Ave. RIP to the legends of appliances.

Boring people trolling other boring people. Classic bro shit.

got a framed copy to hang by the ai team

@Bidean2020 @jordiedu Pues, %75 ulertu dut. Eskerrik asko nire euskeraz formazio!

@jordiedu ... mucha gente sólo los conoce por el nombre. No se puede hacer buena cocina con mala leche”.

No estic gens acostumat a sentir al Karlos Arguiñano en euskera, disculpeu-me amics euskalduns.

The world is Mississippi. Idk how many times we have to tell y'all this for it to stick. Look around.

@joehas There are several apps like this. They are an nightmare logistically but necessary for certain types of assessment.

Proctorio, that’s a thing? Happy I teach Entrepreneurship so AI is a help, not a problem.