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[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

In 1976, ‘Price Is Right’ contestant Alene Glover, overcome by pure shock and excitement, fainted on stage right after host Bob Barker announced she won her Showcase with a bid of $7,000. The credits rolled over the chaotic scene

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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.

[Anna Paulina Luna @realannapaulina]

I voted against this. Unfortunately, too many Republicans sided with Democrats and it passed.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

My goodness. I know it’s hard to ask people to watch anything for 40 minutes these days, but please do watch this. Thought-provoking for the first 2/3 and deeply moving for the final bit, especially the very end. Wow.

[Greg Laurie @greglaurie]

Let’s all be praying for @jordanbpeterson .. He is such an insightful and wonderful man and we miss hearing his very important voice.

His daughter Mikhaila just posted this update…
Doctors have finally diagnosed Jordan with a psych-med-induced neurological injury that has been causing a condition called akathisia — an extreme, uncontrollable restlessness that Mikhaila described as “the worst thing I have ever seen anyone go through.” He is currently recovering at home under medical care. There is reason for hope — but he still has a long road ahead.

Mikhaila has asked that people keep the family in their prayers and said she will not be giving further updates until things improve.
I had the privilege of spending over 3 hours in conversation with Jordan last year where we talked about the afterlife and much more. Here is an excerpt from that…

[Virgil Davis Hunt @vrgldh]

Overton High School in Nashville changes its entire bell schedule to work around Muslim students being able to pray during Ramadan.

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[Laura Carson @LauraCarsonRed]

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[Laura Carson @LauraCarsonRed]

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[TheHouseoftheMuse @HouseoftheMuse_]

I think this is absolutely hysterical… I love my president more than anyone except JFK Junior of course… And my dog… And my husband… But this is some funny shit right here🔥🤣🤣🤣

[Fit_Fusion @FitFusion__]

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[Laura Carson @LauraCarsonRed]

@TheChiefNerd Shaun, you were such a joy to watch!! You ARE THE OG!!

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

Shaun White Rides the Olympic Halfpipe in Torino Once Again 🏂

“I’d be lying to say I didn't dream about potentially competing here … I miss it, I miss it so much.”

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@HasanKhxnx I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer.

[Melissa Redpill @MelissaRedpill]

BREAKING : Yep! Her husband’s company is listed as a co conspirator in the Epstein files… FGS Global.
In case you're wondering why now of all times for Savannah Guthrie's mother to be 'kidnapped' --
Savannah Guthrie IS in the Epstein files. She is linked to the Clintons.
Her husband’s name is Michael Feldman. He was "the scrubber", that is, the guy who got things harmful to the Clintons from the press, off of the internet, and out of the public eye.
He founded a PR consulting firm with Joe Lockhart.
Joe Lockhart was Bill Clinton's White House Press Secretary.
After Lockhart left government, he became a senior partner at the Glover Park Group, which was co founded by Feldman.
Joe Lockhart sold his DC property at 2446 Belmont Road NW Washington DC to the Obamas.
Glover Park then made Gregg Rothschild the managing director of the group's "government affairs division".
Rothschild's wife Stefanie Herscowitz Rothschild died in a bizarre traffic accident in 2021.
Down the rabbit hole we go.

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