Clare Bilek

Lawyer | Volunteer | Mom | Wife

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

Americans criticizing Canada for not being able to control 1 billion acres of forrest when they can't even control their own lettuce supply from giving themselves explosive diarrhea.

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@BlackLabelAdvsr My son just had knee surgery and I paid $0. Not even anything for parking at the hospital. $0 for the X-rays, MRI and follow up appointments with the surgeon.

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@TVietor08 How dare you take Sting’s name in vain!

[Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ Mikotsikaa @MarcMillerVM]

How would Canada's plan to keep kids off social media work? | CBC News https://t.co/OngfdDbf7Q

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@HunterBiden @QualityLearing_

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@mehdirhasan He compared Mayor Pete to the same character. His comparators are obviously limited, lol.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

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.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Today is World Liver Day 2026.
Here are 8 things your liver actually wants you to know.

1
There is no such thing as a "liver detox."
Your liver runs phase I and II detoxification 24/7 on its own.
No juice cleanse, no milk thistle, no herbal detox speeds this up.

In fact several have caused liver injury - the opposite of the claim.

2
Alcohol has no safe dose.
Liver harm begins from the first drink.
The old "moderate drinking is protective" myth came from flawed studies contaminated by abstainer bias - now debunked by Mendelian randomization.

Zero ml is best.

3
"Natural" supplements are now a leading cause of acute liver failure.
Ashwagandha. Green tea extract. Garcinia. Kratom. High-dose turmeric. Giloy/Tinospora.
They dominate drug-induced liver injury registries across India, the US, and Europe.

Natural ≠ safe.

4
Coffee is genuinely liver-protective.
2–3 cups/day (caffeinated or decaf) lowers the risk of fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.

One of the very few dietary interventions with real, replicated evidence.

5
Fatty liver (MASLD) now affects ~1 in 3 adults worldwide.
A 7–10% body-weight loss:
• clears Liver fat
• reduces inflammation
• can regress early fibrosis

No approved drug currently beats this. Your plate and feet are the first-line therapy.

6
Sugar-sweetened drinks independently cause fatty liver.
Fructose is metabolized almost entirely by the liver - straight into fat.
One daily soda raises MASLD risk even after adjusting for total calories.
Lesser is better.

7
Get vaccinated against hepatitis B. Get screened for HBV and HCV at least once in your lifetime.
HBV vaccine prevents >95% of chronic infection, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.
Hepatitis C is curable in 8-12 weeks with >95% success - but most carriers don't know they have it.

8
Exercise protects the liver independent of weight loss.
150 min/week moderate OR 75 min vigorous activity reduces liver fat and stiffness - even when the scale doesn't move.

Movement is "medicine".

🫂

PS: we also need a liver emoji

[CNN @CNN]

The use of Tylenol by women during pregnancy was not associated with autism in their children, according to results of a nationwide ​study in Denmark. https://t.co/cxC9qgfMbw

[CityNews Halifax @CityNewsHFX]

Canada’s privacy commissioner says a massive breach of Nova Scotia Power’s systems last year started when an employee clicked on a pop-up https://t.co/VGHn85vB3t

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@EliMcCann That is what they’re called though.

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@SarahLongwell25 How has she not been disbarred? She brings shame to the legal profession.

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@petermansbridge @ChantalHbert @bruceanderson @CanadaTalks167 Thank you, Peter, for your strong defence of our troops, WWI onward. I could hear the restraint in your voice as you provided a history lesson to the ignorant US president.

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@IsakowKevin @AlexpiersonAMP One of the Michaels (Kovrig) is all for this. He was on Power and Politics last night.

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@BenVolin Still insufferable after all these years…

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@EternalLifePlan @ReynoldsShook @christopherhale Witnesses WHO WERE ACTUALLY THERE definitively say your version is a lie.

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@people Why are you rehashing this terrible event when there is no recent development to make it newsworthy? The families of the victims do not need their trauma replayed on social media for clicks.

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

🟥 Meanwhile, for those that are confused about Trump's sudden obsession with Venezuela and determination to liberate that Nation from "drug dealers"...

This short clip will explain PLAINLY, what is really going on.

#Oil 🛢️

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@cbccolleenjones So very sorry for the loss of your mom, she was one of a kind 💔

[Clare Bilek @ClareEMo77]

@VaticanNews I hope to visit there one day, my parents named me after St. Clare