Rachel Plybon Beach

Christian, wife to @beachforwv & mom/Prof. of Interior Architecture, Tweets are my own. Will block suspicious followers.

[Rachel Plybon Beach @RPBeach]

Honored to be a part of this juried exhibition for hospitality design https://t.co/LZTw9d0g0l

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Enjoyed a wonderful week with family

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#americanheritage #AmericanPride
Happy 4th to all
Be safe

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Celebrating the Beach Boys graduation at the cottage with family Part 2

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Congratulations to the Beach Boys Part 1

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@ameliaknisely @stevenadamswv You can line the litter box with them, too.

[Rachel Plybon Beach @RPBeach]

Thank you!

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Rep Massie: “I think the biggest crime I committed against the swamp…was showing the American people that somebody on the right could join somebody on the left and get something done, which is releasing the #Epstein files, that everybody knew needed to be done. That’s probably the ONLY bill that has passed Washington DC in the last ten years, that lobbyists haven’t written. It was written by me and Ro Khanna…that’s when they decided I had to be taken out, that I was becoming effective so they wanted to eliminate me...”😳

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Dale Earnhardt Jr with a beautiful tribute to Kyle Busch

Rest in Peace, Rowdy

[Joey Ellis @Jellis1016]

An emotional pre race at the Coke 600. Kurt Busch lays down 8 flowers on the infield No. 8 for his late brother Kyle Busch. Not a dry-eye in the speedway.

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views.

He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult.

The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework.

Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed.

Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference.
He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition.

This is why elaborative encoding works so well.

Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens.

His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your
behaviour, you have not actually learned it.

The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

[John Kasich @JohnKasich]

Some commentary makes it sound like America is fading and China has already won. Baloney. We have real problems, polarization and a decline in character, but freedom makes those problems fixable. China steals, subsidizes and silences dissent. Freedom wins.

[Rachel Plybon Beach @RPBeach]

First full academic year at WVU in the College of Creative Arts & Media’s School of Art & Design Interior Architecture

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Unite to Save the Pipes: 1978 Casavant Memorial Organ - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/SF5plAes9a via @Change

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@BulwarkOnline And at one point his reply,”…and I am suggesting to you??????” 😳 this guy better learn with whom he is speaking to

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@ick_real bertha, thelma, murle

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@johoshua @CollinRugg My land, my rules.

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@donwinslow Well the Oscars are tonight, but alas no nomination for this performance.

[Rachel Plybon Beach @RPBeach]

@BulwarkOnline I disagree. But then you would have to live along with the middle to know the true concerns reflected during elections.