ellieD @Lottiedee

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.

@tlm101 Who was the older woman talking to Amanda at the coroner’s? I can’t remember how she fits into the story

A clear, well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio... worth watching

This is the Scannell data center located in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota Just listen to the sound of this thing…. They want to put another one, comparable to this one, at Bertram Chain of Lakes, Minnesota just 200 feet from residential homes “They are lying to us, these are very loud and they want to put them 200 feet from our homes”

TRUMP'S PANIC EXPLODES: INSULTS FLY AFTER JUST 2 WEEKS OF WAR Donald Trump launched the conflict with Iran full of confidence. Just two weeks later his words and actions reveal something far darker: mounting panic and absolute loss of control. The same leader who promised swift victory is now lashing out, flipping positions, and hitting the panic button on the economy. What went so wrong so fast? TRUMP IN FREEFALL PANIC MODE ➡️ Trump publicly brands the Iranian regime "crazy bastards" in a raw outburst that shocks even his supporters. ➡️ He demands the Federal Reserve slash rates immediately outside any normal schedule. ➡️ That exact emergency move last happened at the absolute peak of COVID market terror. ➡️ Trump tweets that high oil prices are suddenly "great" because America produces the most and earns big money. ➡️ This directly contradicts his entire campaign promise to crash oil prices for voters. THE MISCALCULATION NIGHTMARE ➡️ Trump never saw Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz coming at all. ➡️ He assumed it would hurt them more than anyone else. ➡️ Now he cannot simply pull out while they hold the global oil lifeline. THE VIETNAM ECHO ➡️ His tone grows more martial and aggressive every day. ➡️ Analysts compare it directly to LBJ promising to "break the North Vietnamese" again and again with no turning point ever arriving. ➡️ There was never a real plan, just "Let's Bomb Iran" and hope. THE TANKER BLUNDER ➡️ Trump tells oil tankers to "show courage" and sail straight through claiming zero threat left. ➡️ He adds we sank all their ships so nothing to fear. ➡️ The suggestion lands as the dumbest PR move of the entire conflict. THE BOTTOM LINE Trump entered this war expecting easy dominance. Instead every signal screams he is trapped, escalating, and panicking harder by the hour with no exit in sight. This is the sound of control slipping away fast. #TrumpPanic #IranWar #ControlLost #EmergencyRateCut #HormuzBlunder #Vietnam2 #OilFlipFlop

Tim Miller is identifying something that deserves more traction than it is getting inside the larger Iran coverage. Kash Patel removed Iranian counter-intelligence specialists. The stated basis was their connection to the Trump classified documents case. Some of those classified documents detailed Iranian war plans. The removal happened immediately before a military escalation against Iran. Follow that chain slowly. The professionals fired for knowing about the files are among the professionals with the deepest operational knowledge of the adversary those files described. The loyalty test that produced their removal created an intelligence gap in the specific domain where the gap is most dangerous. And it happened on a timeline that suggests the score-settling did not pause to account for the war that was coming - or worse, that it did not need to. Non-partisan intelligence professionals are not a political convenience. They are the institutional memory that keeps decision-makers from operating blind inside an active conflict. Purging them for involvement in a legal process that touched documents about the current enemy is not personnel management. It is the definition of placing personal protection above collective defense. A republic does not get to call itself strong while punching holes in its own intelligence shield. The people flying the missions over Iran right now deserved better than the vendettas that preceded them.

Tim Miller @Timodc

4 months ago

Still trying to wrap my head around Kash firing a unit that specializes in Iranian counter-intel LAST WEEK -- when they knew war was coming -- because the agents were involved in the Trump classified docs case. ms.now/news/kash-pate…

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This is the most neutral summary I’ve seen of the Minnesota murder by ICE. It has ALL angles, it syncs them together, and shows the lead up and aftermath… if you watch this all and still think those shots were justified - you just might be a psychopath.

1- The Police Use-of-Force Rule on Moving Vehicles Core Police Rule taught nationwide: Officers should not intentionally place themselves in front of or in the path of a moving vehicle and then use deadly force to stop it. 2- DOJ / FBI / National Policing Standards The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI training doctrine states: A moving vehicle alone is not considered a deadly threat. Officers must attempt to move out of the vehicle’s path rather than fire. Deadly force is not justified if: The officer voluntarily placed themselves in front of the vehicle. The vehicle is attempting to flee. There are other avenues of escape 3- International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) The IACP model policy says: Officers shall not fire at or from a moving vehicle unless: There is an imminent threat other than the vehicle itself, and No reasonable alternatives exist Standing in front of a vehicle creates the danger and invalidates the justification. 4- Minnesota training explicitly teaches: Officers must avoid positioning themselves in front of vehicles during enforcement actions Use of deadly force is not justified when the danger results from the officer’s own tactical decisions This is drilled into recruits. 5- Supreme Court Context While not a numbered rule, courts repeatedly rule that: An officer cannot manufacture a deadly-force scenario and then claim self-defense. This is known legally as “officer-created jeopardy.” 5- How It’s Taught to Police Police are taught: Step aside Let the vehicle go Identify later Do not block with your body Do not draw a gun in front of a car Why? Because: Cars are common People panic Officers escalate situations unnecessarily Innocent people get killed.

Neighbors just released a new angle of the ICE shooting and it settles any debate on what actually happened. This was a mother doing something completely ordinary: Dropping somebody off, then trying to leave. She goes to pull out, stops for one car to pass, then waves the agents to drive past. Within seconds, those ICE agents exit their vehicle and rush her, shouting and escalating the situation. Panicked, she tries to drive away and gets shot in the face three times. She posed no threat, showed no intent to harm, and was interfering with no one. She was a civilian going about her life. The official statements that followed contradict the footage and read like an attempt to rewrite what happened. This was a reckless, unjustified killing, followed by a dishonest effort to evade responsibility. It’s horrifying, and it exposes something deeply wrong with the US government and these ICE agents. They must be held accountable. This is not a partisan issue. I need you to lock in gang.

An FBI firearms instructor shares his opinion on sadistic ICE Nazi Jonathan Ross' cold-blooded MURDER of Renee Nicole Good. 😳👇

Can you imagine the destruction of our global standing that required this German statement of revulsion. We are turning into a rogue state. Our allies are no longer confused. They now distrust and fear us.

Farrukh @implausibleblog

6 months ago

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says that the United States is destroying the world order: "But there is also the fact that our most important partner, the United States, has broken with the values that it helped to establish and, above all, has played a decisive role

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@jimmyfallon Sweetest tribute to a cherished pet I’ve ever read. You all loved Gary so much. Thank you for sharing, Jimmy!

Cosplay Kristi "more plastic than brains" Noem waited over 72 hours to greenlight FEMA search & rescue. Texans were drowning-and she stalled lifesaving aid because of her own rules. What was she doing instead? Posting glam shots and asking strangers to rate her face. Thank you to @MeidasTouch for always providing the receipts. #DemsUnited

Indiana will no longer move forward with its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions wfyi.org/news/articles/…

indystar.com/story/news/env… Basically, where we are at right now. Just our opinion. -Data Centers will get major tax breaks -Indiana doesn't have the energy to power the data centers -The Coal lobby needs to keep their plants open -Braun and Co don't want to have LG because of the coal lobby -they mass manipulate everyone into thinking SMRs will save the day but we no idea when they will be around -in the mean time, utility companies can recover 80% of their costs for SMRs w/o even putting a shovel in the ground. -Braun and co shrugs their shoulders and says, "well, guess we have to keep the coal plants open so we keep the data centers rolling"

It's a cult. 😳👇

Anyone remember this? #MAGA

@danacarvey Happy Birthday, Dana!! Love you, love your podcast, and love your impersonations! Keep sharing your stories and humor with us……we need it SO much right now!

Katie Couric breaks down exactly what we were talking about in our #Top5in105 this morning. The hidden provision that no one is talking about that guarantees Trump‘s dictatorship.