Brenda TB

you are worthy. wash your whole life in these words. (jaiya john)
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[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

The world may be in chaos but stilll....

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@karunpal Feeding instant gratification doesn't make it feel full, it makes it even hungrier. Delaying it indeed has better and more satisfying rewards.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@TeslaDarth I watched his whole speech yesterday...made me cry 🥺

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@JamesLucasIT Thanks for sharing...an apt reminder for me to not lose wonder and hope in this era of hate and violence, of conflict and wars. Fortunate enough to have visited 7 of these monasteries more than a decade ago. Will always be one of my best travels ❤️

[Pico Iyer @PicoIyer]

In my less exalted moments, all I want to do is enroll in a School of Mindlessness, since it's whatever is beyond the mind, far deeper than it, that seems most essential and most true.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@nabunturanguy Talagang sobrang worth it ng boto sa kanya

[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.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@karunpal As I grow older, I appreciate these better.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@Slippyzipp6388 @gudanglifehack ta, this is the laugh i needed today 😁

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@TheCinesthetic Really disturbing ⬇️

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@TheCinesthetic

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@Salt__to__taste @TheCinesthetic This broke me.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@ausome_a @TheCinesthetic Same. So stressed while watching it but also praising it at the same time.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@TheCinesthetic Dang I remember this film from years ago. Painful to watch for its grim (albeit excellent) representation of the brutalities and tragedies of war.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@yvessirae Ripley with Andrew Scott and Dakota Fanning. Cinematography is superb.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@mc_khristina @yvessirae Totally agree, and only recently I re-watched all of it on Netflix and even got my son hooked on it.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@datumx11 Growing up, I tried to veer away from the buti nga path. Now that I'm old marami na akong na-buti nga sa kanila, lalo na yung mga deserving.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@PhilstarNews Won't be surprised if some of them are the same people who worked on 'rebranding' the magnanakaw family name currently sitting in Malacañan no?

[Masungi Georeserve @MasungiGeo]

Thank you to everyone who has been sharing the #HandsOffGrupongVena #SaveMasungi campaign, such as A'TIN! Each voice matters in the fight. 🙏

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@13thFool Walang nagsusulong ba? Had the same frustration sa Fort Santiago recently.

[Brenda TB @bebettesky]

@Sachinettiyil Philippines 🇵🇭