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.
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I want to remind each of you to hold tightly to your faith in God. Look around at all the blessings we have already witnessed— the ways He has shown up, provided, protected, and guided us through every step. Even when some things feel unclear or uncertain, remember that God’s plan for us is not always meant to be fully understood in the moment. His ways are higher, and His timing is perfect. I remind myself of this everyday..
There’s no use stressing over what lies outside of our control. Instead, focus on doing what we can with the strength and wisdom He gives us each day, and then release the rest into His capable hands. God is our rock— firm, steady, and unchanging. Stand on that rock unshaken, no matter what storms may come.
I am so incredibly blessed to have experienced this journey with all of you. Through it all, we have grown into better people, more spiritually connected, and more deeply in sync with one another than ever before. What a beautiful gift this has been for all of us who embrace one another.
And remember… God is still writing this story. Just have faith in Him to see where all the twists and plots take us. He knows the ending, and it is good.
Hold on with hope, trust in His love, and keep walking forward in faith.
We’ve got this— because He’s got us.
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This study on visceral fat loss blew my mind...
It found that sustained visceral fat reduction over years was linked to preserved brain volume and cognitive function in middle age.
They tracked people for up to 16 years, and those who lost more visceral fat during an initial diet + weight loss intervention had less brain atrophy and higher cognitive function even up to a decade after the intervention ended.
But it was only visceral fat, not subcutaneous fat or even body weight, making the difference. There was no association between subcutaneous fat loss or BMI improvement and brain volume or cognitive function.
Managing visceral fat levels may truly be the key to keeping a sharp and healthy brain with age.
This is so sweet. A father prays over his baby girl, reciting Scripture and declaring blessing and protection over her life.
Studies show when a father actively practices his faith, up to 75% of children will carry it into adulthood.
A father’s love changes the world.
The Battle Cry Of St Patrick | History's Greatest Prayer
This 1500 year old prayer is arguably the greatest in all church history outside of the Bible itself. As it is St Patrick's weekend and he was the one who wrote it, why not exalt the glory of God and trample on all manner of wickedness with this daily confession?
I heard the Spirit of the Lord say,
“Hear the sound of abundance of rain! For the season of drought is breaking over your life. The heavens, which have seemed as brass over your prayers, are now bending low to hear the sound of your decree.
For the one who has felt the spell of delay, who has seen promise after promise tarry, I say the ‘set time’ has come. I am breaking the witchcraft of postponement. The spirits that have said ‘wait’ and ‘not yet’ are being silenced by my command. What has been held in the heavens is now being released to earth. Prepare your hands to receive. Prepare your barns for the sudden harvest.
For the one entangled in family bewitchment, where cycles of folly and lack repeat, I am sending the fire of My presence into your bloodline. I am cutting the cords of foolish agreements. The mantle of shame is rolling off your family name. You are not the child of a curse; you are the head of a new lineage. From you shall flow wisdom, prosperity, and divine favor. You are the covenant breaker, the generational reformer. Where you stand, I am establishing a new altar.
For the one under the spell of fear and intimidation, whose Goliath has roared for 40 days and more, I am releasing the spirit of David. You will not just hide in the camp; you will run toward the battle. For I have placed in your hand a smooth stone of testimony, and with one declaration of My name, the giant will fall. The fear that paralyzed a multitude will become the platform for your fame. You will take the head of your enemy and plunder his camp.
I am decreeing over your health, over your blood: "Be cleansed!" Where the doctor's report has written a sentence, I am writing a miracle. Where medicine has managed symptoms, I am erasing the root. I am the Lord who heals you. Leukemia, HIV, diabetes, autoimmune disease must bow to my name! You are not subject to the covenant of sickness. Your body is the temple of My Spirit. I am flushing out every foreign agent, every unclean spirit of infirmity. Receive the transfusion of My life!
To the one who has heard the command, ‘Come down from your hill...’ the voice of the king saying your marriage is over, your business is finished, your ministry is too high; I say YOU WILL NOT COME DOWN! Your elevation is not by man’s ladder, so man cannot pull you off. I placed you there, and I will sustain you there. The wind that blows is to solidify your roots, not to uproot you. Let the captains come with their threats; they are only coming to be consumed by the fire of your testimony.
I am dispatching angels to your side. The Angel of the Lord who camped around Elijah is forming a perimeter around your life, your home, your journey. They are restoring your dignity. They are turning the mockery of the enemy into a memorial of your victory.
This is your hour of reclaimed authority. Open your mouth and answer the intimidation! Your tongue is the pen of a ready writer, drafting the narrative of your days. Do not be silent. Decree a thing, and it shall be established. Confess with your mouth the victory I have placed in your heart.
The spell is broken. The bewitchment is nullified. The chain is shattered.
You are stepping out of the fog of confusion into the clarity of your purpose. You are leaving the council of the foolish and taking your seat in the chambers of the wise. Funds you did not labor for will find you. Doors you did not knock on will swing open. Favor will meet you like a morning tide.
You are coming UP, not down. You are going IN, not out. You are moving FORWARD, not backward.
Lift your head. The stone of your hardship has been rolled away. The grave clothes of your past season are being unwound. Step into the light of this new day. It is your day of visitation.”
-Prophet Charlie Shamp
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is singlehandedly shifting the Overton window for what’s acceptable to be said on The View.
As the panel was trashing Kristi Noem, she set off a grenade by making ironclad arguments for a closed border.
“How many people in the audience had to go through security to get here? Raise your hand.”
HASSELBECK: “I think all lives matter to God.”
“And we are in uncommon times, so we need to have uncommon sense about things like this.”
“Yes, there will be mistakes made, but I think if Kristi Noem were up for promotion right now and she put forward the statistics that zero illegals released into the U.S. for 10 months straight have not crossed.”
“That nearly 3 million aliens have left the United States.”
“That we have the lowest murder rate in 125 years.”
“That fentanyl trafficking is down 56% at the border and daily encounters have gone down 96%.”
Joy Behar tried to interrupt, but Hasselbeck kept going.
“Hang on one second.”
“We need a strong border especially now with the current global situation, and I believe that you may say you don’t want border control and you’re against ICE, but I don’t believe you in your daily lives.”
“How many people in the audience had to go through security to get here? Raise your hand.”
“Just be honest, otherwise you got to jail, I guess, for illegal trespassing.”
[Camera cuts to audience members raising their hands]
“This is an authorized audience. They had to go through security, to get through the border, to get right here to just hear us talk.”
“We need strong borders more than ever right now.”
“We are being infiltrated!”
Immediately, she was attacked by almost every panelist sitting next to her.
The Bible was written on three continents.
Asia.
Africa.
Europe.
In three languages.
Hebrew.
Aramaic.
Greek.
By over 40 different men —
Shepherds.
Kings.
Prophets.
Fishermen.
A doctor.
Across roughly 1,500 years.
Yet it tells one continuous story:
Creation.
Fall.
Redemption.
Christ.
Different writers.
Different centuries.
Different cultures.
One voice.
Because behind the human hands was a divine Author.
Men held the pens.
But God wrote the story.
JUST IN: Tim Tebow shows senators a map of the United States showing every single location where someone is downloading, sharing, or distributing CSAM.
“We are losing the battle, and we are losing the war, and boys and girls are suffering for it…”
“Every red dot that is on there is someone that is downloading, sharing, or distributing [CSAM].”
“55% to 85% of them are also hands-on offenders, and we know that your average offender has thirteen victims in their lifetime.”
“The scale of harm right here in America is, to a certain extent, hard to comprehend, but that's why we're here.”