Angie Coffin

Breathe in. Breathe out. Move on.

[Angie Coffin @angcoffin]

Good luck boys! @TylerCoffin6

[Junction City Brigade @jcbrigadebsb]

Getting loose

[Angie Coffin @angcoffin]

❤️🤍💙

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

Bernie Sanders and AOC haven't created a single millionaire.

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires.

Socialism vs. Capitalism

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Country Roads — West Virginia to Omaha. Mountaineer fans are going to buy up a TON of Jell-O shots. Have fun. Great town and great trip!

[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.

[The MIAA @TheMIAA]

The Hornets are headed to the MIAA championship game!

No. 6 seed @ESUBaseball defeated No. 7 seed Missouri Western 14-1 in seven innings in the MIAA semifinals. The Hornets will battle for the tournament title for the first time since 2015.

@ESUSports x #BringYourAGame

[Angie Coffin @angcoffin]

@TylerCoffin6 💣

[ESU Athletics @ESUSports]

Back to back homers by Tyler Coffin and Logan Myers gives @ESUBaseball an 11-2 lead over @RiverHawksBSB after seven innings. #StingersandDingers

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

They say a father is the one person who quietly roots for you to outgrow him—to go further, do better, and live bigger than he ever could. There’s something really powerful in that. 🥹💕

[ESU Athletics @ESUSports]

Tyler Coffin leads off the bottom of the third with a home run to give @ESUBaseball a 5-0 lead over @fhsubaseball #StingersandDingers

[Angie Coffin @angcoffin]

@TylerCoffin6 💣🙌🏼

[ESU Athletics @ESUSports]

Season High 25 Runs for @ESUBaseball in Run-Rule Win over Tigers #StingersUp https://t.co/iYejt0M76y

[Angie Coffin @angcoffin]

Holy hell, what a game!! 💣

[Angie Coffin @angcoffin]

@coachzblair10 Gross

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dr. Daniel Amen said something that made me pause and think about how we parent today.

“We are raising mentally weak children because we overdo for them.”

He explained that when you do too much for your kids, you’re actually increasing your own self-esteem by stealing theirs. Mental toughness comes from solving problems — not from having every problem solved for you.

If your daughter forgets her homework, don’t bring it to school.
If she doesn’t bring a jacket on a cold day, she feels the cold.
When she says “I’m bored,” don’t rush to fix it — just say, “I wonder what you’re going to do about it,” and then stay quiet.

It’s tough love, but according to Dr. Amen, that’s how you build resilience instead of helplessness.

[Baseball @mlbelites_]

This catch by Bobby Witt Jr. is INSANE 😳

[Angie Coffin @angcoffin]

❤️❤️❤️

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: The 2026 Masters concessions at Augusta National have gone viral for being extremely cheap.

You could order every item for a total of $78.75.

Every sports organization needs to take notes.

🤯🤯🤯

[Hornet Baseball @ESUBaseball]

#WeAre

[ESU Athletics @ESUSports]

Diving stop by Coffin starts a 5-4-3 double play in the bottom of the ninth. #StingersUp

[ESU Athletics @ESUSports]

Final from Claremore as @ESUBaseball takes the series finale 8-2 over #15 Rogers State. Tyler Coffin drives in three with his first career home run. #StingersUp

[Angie Coffin @angcoffin]

@TylerCoffin6 💣💣💣

[ESU Athletics @ESUSports]

Tyler Coffin hits the first home run of his career as @ESUBaseball now leads 8-2 in the ninth. #StingersandDingers