Stacy Stuber

Financial counselor/trainer. This is my personal account and any tweets reflect my own personal views. she/her

[Apprisen @Apprisen]

Here’s the secret: stay in, snuggle your pet, and save money. Thank you for coming to our TED Talk.😂
#MoneySavingTips #Adulting #repost

[cheyenne @cheyeyeyeyey]

Please stop announcing the Northern Lights will be visible if they will not be visible to me.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

cats will be like oh you're walking somewhere? no WE'RE walking somewhere. and i will get there first. where is 'there' btw

[carl @CarlsBeef]

I want to file a class action lawsuit on behalf of all Cubs fans who watched that Alex Bregman 9th inning at bat

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The chances of a deer taking you out at a crosswalk are slim. But never zero.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Midwesterners will understand this

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

The most important thing I've learned in life, and I can't stress this enough: you gotta make a salad in a bigger bowl than you think

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

You know you're getting old when the radio stations and bars play music you don't like, but the supermarket is throwing out banger after banger.

[Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @Amy_Siskind]

OMG 💔

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

The Cubs won a ballgame

[This Day in Chicago Sports @ChiSportsDay]

The Cubs have taken on their managers personality. Lifeless

[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

Last year, Ohio Republicans passed a law forcing every district to let LifeWise take kids from class during the school day. We fought for months to add basic protections to the bill — like a background check requirement for LifeWise staff

They ignored us.

[signüll @signulll]

“can i start you off with an appetizer, maybe 30 tortillas?”

“god no, i can’t eat that many tortillas!”

“how about if cut them up into triangles, fry them in seed oil, & serve them with some salsa?”

“omg that sounds delightful”.

[bee 🌸 @awwabee]

thinking about the time i went to a concert and the opener looked exactly like zoot from the muppets

[Adrenalin Patlaması @adrenaIinIendnz]

Beklenti ve Gerçekler... 😂

[Bella @BellaBaddie__]

Unfortunately the movie you want to watch is unavailable on your 13 streaming services

You can rent it for $2.99 though

[NOLLY @omoelerinjare1]

Grandma always disciplined the kids with her slippers. If they misbehaved and ran off, she’d throw one and never missed.

For her birthday, they placed a bottle on a distant table and handed her a slipper to aim at. She hit it perfectly.

[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.

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

This Groundhog has been stealing a Farmer's crops for years and eats them right in front of the camera