Auke Kok

Geschiedenis & Sport. Laatste boek: biografie ‘Mussert - Reis naar het kwaad’.

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

‘Ik heb genoten van de liefde voor het woord, de taal, de verrassende vergelijkingen.’
Jan Mulder gisteren tijdens presentatie van mijn autobiografische (voetbal)roman 'Flinke jongen'.
Enorm trots op.

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@GrimbergenHer @ErikInkoper Veel dank.

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@MarcdeWinter6 Altijd in de aanval. zowel in als buiten t veld basisprincipe JC.

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

hear hear! 😃

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𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | JOHAN CRUYFF: ALWAYS ON THE ATTACK by @AukeKok

The definitive biography of the skinny impish street footballer who became the genius player, inspirational manager, football philosopher and commercial pioneer.

@simonschusterUK

🛒 https://t.co/Gi2ZjjR7Zx

[Erik Hoekstra @ErikInkoper]

Op donderdag 11 juni is @AukeKok bij boekhandel Broekhuis in Apeldoorn voor een lezing over zijn Mussert biografie.
De avond is vrij toegankelijk. Wel s.v.p. aanmelden via [email protected]
Evenement in samenwerking met uitgeverij Overamstel | Hollands Diep.

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@sven_erich @BoekhvanPampus @hollands_diep dank je wel Sven!

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

Morgen daalt ‘t kwik buiten maar niet binnen bij Boekhandel Van Pampus in Amsterdam. Daar spreek ik om 20.00 uur over biografie Mussert. Wordt heet avondje.
C v Eesterenlaan 17
@BoekhvanPampus
@hollands_diep

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

Even kuieren en zonnen voorafgaand aan #Mussert-lezing in Boekhandel t Spui. Fijne plek hoor, Vlissingen.

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@Ellingmann ganzenveer!

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

fascinerend en ook beetje deprimerend

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

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.

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@StevensWessels @hollands_diep dank je. was leuk om te doen

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

Daar zat ik dan, bij Gijs Groenteman in de kast van de Volkskrant. Pratend over Mussert en hoe het was om mij jarenlang met zo iemand bezig te houden. #podcast @hollands_diep

https://t.co/wIr12ZsxzA

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@RemcoHelsloot @hollands_diep Dank 😃

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@BartSlim @hollands_diep dank je!

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@Amsterdam1012 dank je!

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

vandaag eerste exemplaar gekregen. kloek en gebonden. mijn biografie van Anton Mussert - komende week in de winkel! 😃

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@jvdoost dank je!

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

mijn optredens bij boekhandels deze week…

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@PhilipDroge @ShirleyBrandeis @HesterLoeff gezellig! kom ik gewoon terug naar Dekker vd Vegt in Nijmegen.

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@ShirleyBrandeis @HesterLoeff @PhilipDroge terecht! kon er gewoon niet van slapen.

[NH Radio Sportcafé @NicoDriessen]

@AukeKok Gerard van der Lem Henk Spaan Michael van Praag @bert_bdijkstra Kees Kwakman en @LeoDriessen as zaterdag vanuit cafe 1890 10uur Het enige echte Sportcafé. Bij @NHSport_

[Auke Kok @AukeKok]

@ShirleyBrandeis @HesterLoeff @PhilipDroge Die rechtse ook niet slecht hoor.

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

Every four years, @sszy and I massively update Soccernomics. The new US edition is out tomorrow, with lots of new material on transfers, on the USMNT and a whole new chapter on what the MLS needs to do to become good. Get your copy here: https://t.co/B37jVlKeQ6