Andrea Scalia 🌍

The essence of my life is contact with people 🇮🇹
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[Turismo Roma @Turismoromaweb]

“Torre delle pignatte” is the nickname given in the Middle Ages to the Mausoleum of St Helena.
🏺At the base of the dome, to lighten its weight, there are in fact empty amphorae, called ‘pignatte’. Hence the name of the Torpignattara district.
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[Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛ @albertwenger]

My book The World After Capital https://t.co/JvRQFHlvZn in 64 tweets

[Forbes @Forbes]

Stagflation sounded impossible until it happened. AI could create another economic contradiction economists don’t yet have a name for. Learn more: https://t.co/5QUwhIDrlO (Illustration: Yunjia Yuan for Forbes)

[Malusi Mahlaba @Junda1]

📌 YOUR EDUCATION FAILED. "Learning is life." For Philosopher John Dewey, education is not all about stuffing facts into the mind. Rather, it is about cultivating the ability to think, question, and solve problems through real experiences.

[Amit @HeyAmit_]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Andrea Scalia 🌍 @andreascaliatw]

Angelini Technologies chiude il 2025 in forte crescita e punta sulla robotica - Innovation Post https://t.co/SuWl89X7UZ

[Manifest_Lord @Manifest_Lord]

A UCLA neuroscientist discovered that two words reduce emotional pain as effectively as Paracetamol.

Not metaphorically. The same brain regions that process physical pain process emotional pain.

And two words activate the same relief pathway.
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[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.

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

How to control really works, ope this thread:

Step 1: create temptation, give them which they can’t refuse.

[Andrea Scalia 🌍 @andreascaliatw]

Nel Lazio si tramanda un formaggio di pecora antico 2000 anni che si fa con i fiori https://t.co/MexQF8xK2x

[Elora khatun @elora_khatun]

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[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Israel vuelve a violar la legalidad internacional al asaltar una flotilla civil en aguas que no le pertenecen.

Nuestro Gobierno está haciendo todo lo necesario para proteger y asistir a los españoles retenidos.

Pero con eso no basta. La UE tiene que suspender el acuerdo de asociación YA y exigir a Netanyahu que cumpla la ley de nuestros mares.

[Andrea Scalia 🌍 @andreascaliatw]

Europa cerca di spezzare il dominio di Visa e Mastercard, ma non tutti sono d'accordo | Euronews https://t.co/FfQ5aDXa78

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Brussels has long had a reputation as one of Europe’s most congested cities: one of traffic jams, polluted air, and streets dominated by cars. Yet in recent years, the capital has become an unlikely case study in how bold political leadership can reclaim urban space for people.🧵

[Roma @Roma]

#BuongiornoRoma Credit: https://t.co/CHJYX3YUVH - Arco di Costantino

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”

— Italian Proverb

[Amit @HeyAmit_]

This 1 hour Yale lecture by Professor Ben Polak on game theory you will ever seen.

It will change how you think about decisions in negotiations, business, and everyday life.

[Roma @Roma]

#BuongiornoRoma Credit: https://t.co/I0zG2V5zZv - Foro di Traiano

[Gemeente Utrecht @GemeenteUtrecht]

Welgelegen Den Hommel ligt er in 2028 nog lekkerder bij:

meer planten, 150 extra bomen, wadi’s, toegankelijkere stoepen, nieuwe riolering & maximumsnelheid van 30 km/u.👉https://t.co/9cz3rbV7x6

[Andrea Scalia 🌍 @andreascaliatw]

AI e lavoro, i dati ufficiali: meno giovani assunti #AI #Lavoro
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