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It’s something you may never have seen a piano teacher do before: write numbers directly on the piano keys. In the “Payam Method,” beginners do not initially use intimidating sheet music. cbsn.ws/4dMXHeH

This is Mars. 140 million miles away.

Now that we've cut off federal High-Speed Rail funding, we need answers as to how the state could spend $17 billion over 17 years without laying any track. Last week we voted to authorize a full investigation into the project resulting in a comprehensive report to Congress.

@WCCSG_ Ron Cox Fresno State

@HulaHeadBang @cogmeyer Student Housing at Bakersfield College share.google/bZvsyxY10BVcBn…

@cogmeyer There are no junior colleges in California with dedicated dorms AND a homeless housing program. The three colleges that do have a program house the students in off-campus housing.

So my kid just finished a semester in the dorms at a CA junior college. His roommate is a previously homeless 18 year old that apparently got free dorm, free meal plan and even extra cash for checking the homeless box. He spent the cash on a gaming system. He dropped out the first month, but was allowed to stay in the dorm because... homeless. Today 5 of 6 suite mates got together to clean the dorm, to get their deposit back (and also to not be slobs). This guy sat in a chair watching, because taxoayers payed his dorm deposit. Anyway just a little report on CA efforts to house the homeless.

@cogmeyer Bakersfield College Student Housing share.google/bZvsyxY10BVcBn…

🚨 Elon Musk backs billionaire Warren Buffett’s famous plan to eliminate the deficit in 5 minutes: “You just pass a law that says, ‘Anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection.’” Elon Musk wrote on 𝕏: “💯 This is the way[!]” If the politicians in D.C. actually cared about the American people, they would pass this law tomorrow. What's your response to this.....??👀 Do you firmly support Elon Musk on this? A. Huge Yes B. No IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!!

"If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out." - Richard Feynman

WE NOW HAVE PROOF!  CA Democrats don't want lower gas prices for you. They know if we start importing gasoline from other states, it will be $1.50 CHEAPER! But AB 2672 requires a massive tax to be added, so you don't get the savings at the pump - the politicians do!  Watch me expose the scam:

You’ve heard the bunker checklist before: Open the face. Open the stance. Ball forwards. Hands back. Hit the sand two inches behind it. And sometimes that works. But sometimes golfers become so obsessed with positions… they forget what actually controls the ball. The

Two friends meet after drinking too much milk ... 😍🤣

I can hear this wallet opening and it sounds like childhood poverty.

The engineering SpaceX is doing is nothing short of incredible. This is something that I am never going to find mediocre. Truly astonishing every time

Average home price vs. average salary over the last 100 years

Did you know? In some Japan's schools, education isn’t just about knowledge — it’s about character. For the first three years of school, children in these specific institutes don’t take academic exams at all. Instead, the focus is on respect, empathy, and moral values. Students learn to clean their classrooms, serve lunch to their peers, and care for their environment. Teachers emphasize teamwork, discipline, and gratitude — qualities considered as vital as academic success.

FRAUD COVERUP: Instead of stopping the massive fraud happening in state programs at your expense,  CA Democrats are covering it all up by passing AB 1608 to allow the High Speed Rail project to hide evidence of fraud from the public! I confronted them on the Assembly Floor with the receipts!

Here's a stark gender disparity no college commencement speaker will highlight this year. Thought Experiment: What if the disparity were reversed? I predict it would be declared to be an alamaring national crisis, with stark and hysterical calls for corrective action. @CHSommers

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.

Thomas Sowell: "We're raising whole generations who regard facts as optional. They are being taught that it's important to have views, they are not being taught that it's important to know what you are talking about."