Monica Strotmann

Vrouw van Henk - Moeder van Elisa - Oma van 💙Elias 💙 Boaz 💙Jack. Theater en Circus producent. Alles In wisselende volgorde.

[Rik Torfs @torfsrik]

Irandeal is een vernedering voor Donald Trump. Maar veel meer nog een drama voor de miljoenen Iraniërs die moeten (blijven) leven in een meedogenloze dictatuur, waarvoor bij progressief Europa helaas zelfs enige sympathie bestaat.

[Monica Strotmann @Monicastrotmann]

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[Bibliofilie @bibliofilie]

Geboortedag Louis Couperus (1863-1923), door een literair criticus gekarakteriseerd als een man met een 'enigszins decadente overbeschaving'. Zijn werk heeft de tand des tijds grotendeels doorstaan. Van zijn veelzijdige oeuvre vind ik 'Eline Vere' het hoogtepunt.

[Historic Hub @HistoricHub]

One of the most breathtaking train rides in the world.
The Bernina Express travels from Chur, Switzerland to Tirano, Italy on the Rhaetian Railway. It crosses 196 bridges and 55 tunnels, climbs over the Bernina Pass, and then descends into Italy

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Asal Shafiei did not take to the streets and sacrifice her life for a nuclear deal.

She did not die for the Abraham Accords either.

She gave her life for a free Iran.

[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.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

10-year-old Victory Blinker who set the Guinness World Record for the youngest opera singer in the world, sings Mozart’s 'Der Holle Rache,’ considered one of the most difficult arias to sing.

[Monica Strotmann @Monicastrotmann]

@Redbeeea 2

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

No screaming. No fires. No broken glass. No threats, or machetes, or chants of “Allahu Akbar.”

Just well-mannered, civilized Brits working to save their country from barbarism.

[Edvin 🇮🇷 @EdvinFarhadG]

🚨25 years old
In danger of execution
Say her name
#AidaKoushki

[Monica Strotmann @Monicastrotmann]

Waar vieren we deze zomer vakantie?

[Peyman Haghighi @Peyman223]

پخشان عزیزی هستم و محکوم به اعدام. صدایم باشید!

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

With his hands cuffed, he wipes his own tears…Because he was forced to confess to a crime he never committed. And then, they hanged him in Iran for protesting against Islamic Republic.

His name was Erfan Kiani.
But we only heard his name after his execution.

His family stayed silent, not out of choice, but out of fear.
They were told: stay quiet, and maybe he will live.
So unfortunately many families believe the interrogators.

There is no ceasefire in Iran.
The executions never stopped.
The war is not over, it has simply been hidden behind prison walls.

I call on international media and the leaders of free world to take action about it. Say their names.
Do not let them die twice in silence.

[خلیل الله بلوچے @kalbalouchi]

به من خبر دادند عامر رامش نوزده ساله اهل دشتیاری برای اعدام به قرنطینه منتقل شده، خانواده‌اش برای آخرین ملاقات در مسیر زندان هستند.

لطفاً صدایش باشید.

#عامررامش

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

I’m begging

Ehsan Hosseinipour, Matin Mohammadi and Erfan Amiri are about to be hanged by the Islamic regime

Flood the world with their faces

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

The Islamic regime is holding these children in prison for protesting. Many are wounded and subjected to severe torture, others have been sentenced to death, and the fate of some remains unknown.

This is what the world’s silence enables.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Bita Hemmati
Ghazal Ghalandari
Golnaz Naraghi
Venus Hossein Nejad
Panah Movahedi
Ensieh Nejati
Mahboubeh Shabani
Diana Taher Abadi

All set to be executed by hanging unless there is an intervention.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Child victims of the islamic regime.

They cut off the internet because it makes it easier to cover up atrocities like this while threatening the families into silence.

It was never about nukes or missiles or infrastructure for us.

[Monica Strotmann @Monicastrotmann]

Blij met voorpagina Hamburger Abendblat!

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

Don’t let her die in the dark.

Save Shakila Ghasemi.