Ben Messerschmidt

I'm me. Let’s pretend we are all humans!!!⚽️🏀🏈🏂

[Ben Messerschmidt @BenMesserschmi3]

@elgraficionado MESSI

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

THE GOAL IS GIVEN AND THE BUILDING SHAKES IN SEATTLE 🇺🇸

WHAT A CELEBRATION FROM ALEX FREEMAN AND THE ENTIRE @USMNT BENCH

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Before we Played Australia!

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Quite the ascent in 476 days for Alex Freeman. 📈

[Melissa Mitchell @MelissaMit18714]

Great night at the Northeast Wisconsin Sports Awards night Grace and Autumn were nominated for girls basketball player of the year 🏀💗 Harps was nominated for soccer player of the year ⚽️ @GraceMitch67126 @AutumnCrowe25 @HarperNeace

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have identified a reversal of the long-standing Flynn effect—the roughly 200-year trend of rising average intelligence (measured via IQ and cognitive tests) across generations.

For the first time in modern recorded history, Generation Z (born roughly 1997–2012) shows lower performance than previous generations in key cognitive domains, including attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, problem-solving, and general IQ—despite spending more years in formal education than ever before.

Neuroscientist and educator Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, PhD, MEd, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on January 15, 2026, highlighting this shift. In his written testimony, he stated that cognitive development in children across much of the developed world has stalled or reversed over the past two decades, with declines evident in international assessments (e.g., PISA, TIMSS) and other large-scale data starting around the mid-2000s and accelerating post-2010.

Horvath attributes the primary driver not to reduced schooling, but to the widespread integration of digital screens and educational technology (EdTech) in classrooms. He argues that human brains evolved for deep, focused learning through face-to-face interaction and sustained attention, not fragmented skimming or constant task-switching encouraged by devices.

Key points from his testimony include:

- Teens now spend over half their waking hours on screens, with significant portions in school involving computers or tablets—often leading to off-task behavior and shallower processing.

- Evidence from meta-analyses and national/international studies shows a consistent pattern: higher classroom screen exposure correlates with weaker outcomes in reading, math, science, and higher-order reasoning.

- Digital tools may aid narrow, repetitive skill practice in controlled settings, but in core academic contexts, they tend to reduce depth of understanding, retention, and critical thinking.

Horvath describes this as a "structural mismatch" between human cognition and how digital platforms are designed (to capture and fragment attention), warning that unchecked EdTech adoption risks long-term harm to workforce skills, innovation, and societal reasoning.

[Horvath, J. C. (2026). Written testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. U.S. Senate]

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

A beautiful aircraft.

[Crystal Hope @CrystalHope1979]

Anna Lapwood just turned the Royal Albert Hall into a rock arena with Bach. 🎼 🎆

A few nights ago, the powerhouse organist dropped straight into Toccata and Fugue in D Minor — unleashing those thunderous pipes and sending the sold-out crowd wild before slamming into the Ministry of Sound Classical mashup. Pure fire!🔥

She didn’t just play it — she rocked the house.

Total Goosebumps! ✨ 🤩

[Karley Marotta @Karley_Marotta]

A moment the Pratt family will never forget. After Cooper Pratt got the call to the Brewers, his mom landed from a flight to a flood of texts and calls, while his dad hit the road to Milwaukee because he doesn’t like to fly.

More on the family’s reaction to Cooper’s dream becoming reality:

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

Complete game shutout
15 strikeouts
1 hit
0 walks

Jacob Misiorowski talks through the 9th inning of his MONSTER performance for the @Brewers on Friday. #MLBTonight

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

The National Anthem at the White House was absolutely epic!!! 🇺🇸🔥

Wait for the flyover!!!!

[Patrick Kinas @PatrickKinas]

Top of 6th,@nashvillesounds legendary mgr #RickSweet just called SS #CooperPratt off the field,then overtook phone call in dugout w/Pratt waiting behind

Seconds later, Sweet turns to Pratt, extending hand

21yo Cooper Pratt is going to @Brewers!
#ThisIsMyCrew #LoveSweetsFistPump

[Spencer Michaelis @smichaelis234]

Here’s the sequence in video form

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

They 1000% saw you and said “watch this” too each other 😂😎

[Stoolies Clubhouse 🏴‍☠️ @StooliesClub]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 LETS GO AMERICA!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[RP⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @RPUSWNT]

Ok this was tuff

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

The European mind has finally comprehended. 🇺🇸

#worldcup #usmnt

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

The FIFA World Cup NOW crew lost their minds at Gio Reyna's golazo.

@petercrouch | @SachaKljestan | @MauriceEdu | @MelissaMOrtiz

[Kylen Mills @KylenMills]

The beautiful thing about the World Cup is seeing people from all walks of life come together. This week the people of Lawrence, KS have gone above & beyond to embrace and essentially adopt Team Algeria. This is the best of America, let’s spread the word about the positive. #worldcup #usa #algeria

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

They’ve been insisting they’re twins since they were in preschool. Nearly a decade later, the pair is still proving sisterhood goes beyond genetics. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road in Miami.