Jan Bustrak

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@DanielNayeri You broke my resolve to buy no more books this month. It will go nicely with my new retail copy of The Teacher of Nomad Land. Thanks for the link!

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart. Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel. A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states. A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely. Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help. The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives. A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently. In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.

@kyleynfl Matt Forte

Name a forgotten fantasy football RB:

The goal of @nih is to spur research and innovation to address our country's most pressing challenges. One of the greatest challenges we face is our agricultural system that relies heavily on toxic chemicals that impact human health. Farmers apply more than one billion pounds of pesticides and herbicides each year in the United States, yet we still lack a clear scientific framework to mitigate the risk and chart a path toward reducing that dependence. We must spur research into understanding the impact of cumulative toxic exposures, and spur innovations to reduce reliance on pesticides and herbicides while maintaining agricultural productivity. At HHS, NIH is launching a $100M grand prize challenge to better understand the health effects of cumulative chemical exposures, and ARPA-H is investing $100M in innovative technologies to reduce reliance on chemical crop protection tools. EPA is adding $30M to spur cost-effective alternatives to pre-havest desiccation use of pesticides. Together with $840M from USDA to advance regenerative agriculture and farm, this commitment of more than one billion dollars strengthens food security, supports farmers, and begins the long overdue transition away from chemically intensive farming to protect human health. To you entrepreneurs: HHS is ready to partner with you to drive innovation and remove regulatory roadblocks so you can bring breakthrough solutions to market. To private philanthropists: NIH has made this a central priority -- now, we need you to help scale it with follow-on funding.

This stopped me cold. Facing stage 4 cancer, Ben Sasse speaks with clarity about faith, mortality, and redeeming the time, then turns to Congress, higher ed, and our attention-starved republic. Worth your time. Watch. Share. What stood out?

💤Researchers found that prescription stimulants for ADHD act on brain networks that control wakefulness and reward, but not attention as previously thought. The study suggests that stimulants and additional sleep affect the brain in similar ways, and that getting enough sleep could help in managing #ADHD. Learn more: bit.ly/4trMtTZ #ResearchMatters

@KurtBenkert If you like history, The Candy Bombers by Andrei Cherny. The whole lead up to the need for the Berlin airlift is covered in story fashion, not like a textbook. You will also.learn why not to trust the Soviets and their heirs.

Good books lately?

@DanielDopp This your penalty from the wheel?

My favorite band is Nickelback.

Jordan Love owns the highest PFF grade vs. the blitz of any QB in the NFL (91.1) Every RT counts as a Pro Bowl Vote!

RT if you agree #ProBowlVote + Josh Jacobs

@BootleggedChad @SharylAttkisson @Aetna I know of a case where the peer to peer consult was closed by Aetna after 2 hours. I don't know any physicians sitting by their phones to respond in that time frame. The case manager did not have good reports about Aetna.

4 days out from my life-changing surgery, @Aetna has denied the appeal for my brain surgery. to be clear, when i signed up to aetna months ago, the coordinator had confirmed they would cover this surgery. then, a week ago, they said the surgery was too experimental/elective and denied coverage. we appealed. that appeal was just denied today. now, my neurosurgeon is trying to do a peer-to-peer consult with someone at aetna to explain why i need it so we don’t lose the surgery date on monday morning. aetna is not being responsive. this is sadistic and a violation of basic trust. please spread this so they can’t ignore it. they may not care if i live or die but people should know just what kind of company they’re dealing with. and please pray they are able to have a peer-to-peer consult with my neurosurgeon and have a change of heart.

@EricNMoody Drop Geno for Stafford? I have Purdy.

What is your most DIFFICULT start/sit decision this week?

@EricNMoody 3 points up, but facing Justin Jefferson.

Are you in need of a Monday Night Miracle for your fantasy football team in Week 1? Tell me about it.....

Did you know AI google searches use 10x more energy than standard searches? You can eliminate AI overviews in your searches simply by typing -ai at the end of your query. It's easy, and it makes a difference. Cheers.

Full-on dancing over this news.

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@SharylAttkisson The book takes a long time to read because the truthful content is upsetting and breaks are required.

Follow the Money. Or read my book Follow the $cience.

@challies Fabulous link for a church librarian! Thank you.

A La Carte: Christians and romantasy / Own your faith / Piper's advice for reading Romans / You'll ruin everything / Don't scratch the itch / Correctly confess your sins / Kindle deals / and more. challies.com/a-la-carte/wee…

@RepTiffany Some programs they fund are legitimate, let's not throw the baby out with the dirty bathwater.

USAID has turned into a taxpayer-funded money laundering scheme under the guise of “global aid.” NONE of your tax dollars should ever fund these abuses. America FIRST! 🇺🇸