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@ihtesham2005 In college and high school I took all notes by hand. I barely needed to study them as when I’d write them down, I’d learn it almost instantly.

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.

Knowing that ADHD/Autistic folk are prone to Rejection Sensitivity Disorder should change the way you date. Saying “no” to an AuDHDer is more like telling a neurotypical to kill themselves. One date, just a couple hours of your life, is not too much to ask for and really helps

@DRBoguslaw @kenklippenstein Sometimes the people want suspense?

@kenklippenstein Sometimes people like mysteries?

Getting pretty tired of this guys shtick. Sometimes elected officials just want to be left alone, mysteriously.

@colmansfilm if you're going for that look, go for @rebeccamoreuk

my very unbiased opinion: it should be hannah waddingham

@colineddington @flowwithkel WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THE MURDER RATE IN 1990 WAS SO MUCH HIGHER THAN TODAY. IN FACT CRIME HAS MORE THAN SUNK 75% SINCE 1990. OMG.

@flowwithkel No. Thats wrong. Theres a different crowd now, and fights and guns. None of us were like that in the 90s. Now you cant keep that crowd out because people call you racist.

People retweeting this asking why we don’t do this anymore and it’s because there’s freaks who record you and then will make fun of you online for having fun

@TheReckSays @danadearmond @layxsnv Yes we call them “quick pickle”

@danadearmond @layxsnv Kinda but not as much spice you get with a pickle. My mother used to put raw cucumber and onion in vinegar overnight and eat it just like that.

only the real know about cucumbers and vinegar 😭🔥🤌🏽

@mckaycoppins @mquintos I do not

@mquintos I know I'm now way out on a limb here, but I also think fewer high-schoolers having sex is a good thing.

I know it's fashionable now to panic about trends like this because it's evidence of antisocial behavior, phone addiction, the teen loneliness epidemic, etc. but my bold, counterintuitive take is that fewer children drinking alcohol is a good thing.

When you mentioned the Woman with the ribbon around her neck, instantly reminded me of when: my teacher read the book to us WITH A RIBBON AROUND HER NECK. When she finished the book she untied the ribbon and we all screamed.

@EmmaVigeland Also, my theory is if she drops out those points go to mcmorrow

There’s going to be a lot of pressure on Haley Stevens to drop out of the race, which is typical of the Bernie Bro left that always wants to see women fail. Personally, I would feel betrayed as a woman if she doesn’t hang in there and see this thing through.

@TheDadspective @BaghdadBob420 @MorePerfectUS There is 0 nuclear threat from Iran. And the last ayatollah made a fates against nuclear arms. But he was killed by Trump. Israel on the other hand, is the only country beside North Korea that never signed the nuclear armament treaty. Even the USA allows inspection. Israel no

@BaghdadBob420 @MorePerfectUS Oh I agree. I just saw $5 dollars at the pump. Thats insane. But I'm also a realist. And if I was in his shoes and saw a real nuclear threat to my people. I might say the same thing he just said.

Reporter: “To what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal? [with Iran]” Trump: “Not even a little bit…. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation”

@sapphicspielbrg JANE! omg, my teacher read the book to us WITH A RIBBON AROUND HER NECK. When she finished the book she untied the ribbon and we all screamed.

RIP to a real one (the girl with the ribbon around her neck and her head falls off if she takes off the ribon)

@BadreNicolas I 100% believe it's heavy pollution with larger particulate matter. Our grandparents grew up with both heavy fire places, oil heated homes, heavy industries that have left the country. Just my take. You may think the air is worse now, but it's much much better.

The odds of having dementia at age 85 were close to 1 in 3 in the 80s; now they are 1 in 10. I don’t think we have a great explanation: better cardiovascular health, diet, and education are often mentioned. Good news nonetheless. Carnall Farrar. (2025, March 27). Dementia trends.

This video grieves my soul. America, how can we stay silent? How can we fund this? Even more so, American Christians how can you turn your head and not care? These are God’s children too.

@klara_sjo This was part of the end of the dada movement I feel

In 1979, the Italian punk band Skiantos appeared at the Bologna Rock festival, brought a full kitchen setup onto the stage, cooked spaghetti, sat down to eat it in front of the audience, and then left without performing any music.

Meanwhile many on the American left are justifying their support for a genocider, and worrying that it’s too much to ask for single payer or a living wage.

🇺🇸BREAKING: Someone placed a $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 AM. 70 minutes later Axios reported the US and Iran were close to a deal. Oil dropped 12%. The trade made $125 million in profit. Minutes after that Iran launched the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority” and oil surged 8%. $760 million placed before Trump’s last announcement. $920 million placed before this one. Every major announcement in this war has been front-run by someone who knew it was coming. What kind of war is this? This is more like a trading desk with an army. Never stop connecting the dots.

@Ortgeist Yes, in the Isleworth neighborhood, same as where the entire Tiger Woods incident went down, same neighborhood where Queen of Versailles was shot

Home of Actor Wesley Snipes, Windermere, Florida, 1997

@hitech_caveman @keithedwards Sorry. Who’s a leftist? Newsom? Lol. Bass? No. Both senators? Not even close

@keithedwards HATING TRUMP IS NOT A POLICY CA is a catastrophe without any say in governance by conservatives. Leftists broke it. How come they never try to explain how hating Trump or rich people translates into positive outcomes?

I'm at a loss for words. This is so bad.

@meagankday That’s how it’s worked in the Nordic countries for decades. Rich kids still get free university. And rich families still have single payer healthcare. And look how long it’s lasted? The quality has sunk in many countries but still accessible.

Gather round as I explain why universal social programs (which, yes, rich people can also access) are better for low-income people than means testing. The viability of any particular program is a matter of politics. And politically, targeted programs make easy targets.

@_carlbeijer @Matthew40397988 do you really hate Platner that much?

@Matthew40397988 ...no?

Aren’t you an apologist for the russians in ukraine?