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[kristi @abhkn]

@rubythepekatzu @CBSNews Exactly what I was thinking. Fired and sued. Thought they were supposed to use pepper spray first...but seriously 5 shots? He needs to be fired.

[kristi @abhkn]

@TammyGrace_ Good thoughts for your 🐶

[kristi @abhkn]

@PoliceThePolic1 Why so many standing there doing nothing? Rush it to the vet...at least https://t.co/gnINQ7y4Uj you care. This is disgusting. Hope she sues.

[kristi @abhkn]

@TLC00001 @ValerieAnne1970 Thats my thinking. I was expecting it to be like you said $100 or so and I'll pay that but not $800. So yeah I'm still looking.

[kristi @abhkn]

@TLC00001 @ValerieAnne1970 How much was timers? I'm having trouble finding somewhere to have it done instead of vaccine without it being $800

[kristi @abhkn]

@EchoOfVeritas @ClownWorld She's just lazy and doesn't want to take them to a pool or engage with them...shed rather just send them to the neighbors to be out of her way.

[kristi @abhkn]

@backstreetboys ? These are not movies

5. Is awesome btw

[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.

[kristi @abhkn]

@backstreetboys Does Katie need an assistant? If so just let me know.😁

[kristi @abhkn]

@FiredUpCoug People are stupid

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 2020, a small city in Wisconsin told its residents they could stop mowing for a month. 435 households joined in. The bees came back the same spring.

Appleton was the first US city to adopt No Mow May. The city council suspended its weed ordinance for the month so residents wouldn't get cited for tall grass. Around 40 acres of lawn across the city went uncut.

Researchers from Lawrence University sampled the unmowed lawns and nearby mowed city parks in the same week. The unmowed lawns had 5 times as many bees and 3 times as many bee species as the mowed parks.

Wisconsin is home to nearly 500 native bee species. Most people have never seen them because they don't live in honeybee hives. They're solitary bees, ground nesters, small black or metallic green insects that fit on a fingernail.

Appleton's unmowed yards gave them food and shelter in the hungry early-spring window when almost nothing else is blooming.

The experiment cost the city nothing. It saved residents fuel and labor. It produced measurable ecological results within 30 days.

Dozens of US cities have adopted the practice since. Has yours?

[kristi @abhkn]

@blindnotsoblind @BHsBirthday Thank you!

[kristi @abhkn]

@MelissaJoanHart happy happy birthday ....we share 🎂 birthday

[kristi @abhkn]

@DDubsNumber1BH Thank you😁

[kristi @abhkn]

@BHsBirthday 😄thank you

[kristi @abhkn]

@backstreetboys This was on the hotline😁

[kristi @abhkn]

@itimaliasof Aww poor puppys like don't laugh at me

[kristi @abhkn]

@CheckersRallys how come we have rewards in the app but are unable to redeem them?

We have tried online and in store. Won't work. We had a $2/$10 expiring today and it shows up but wouldn't go thru and redeem.

[kristi @abhkn]

@backstreetboys Happy Happy birthday 🎂

[kristi @abhkn]

@MAGALieTracker What is the point? What a waste of money we don't have to waste.