Bryan

I love hobbies and participating in pastimes. I'm a big fan of interests.

[Bryan @bryhams]

@NoFilterSkin Let our eyes light up when they walk in the room.

https://t.co/WUrEjzely1

[Bryan @bryhams]

@davidjsmith1232 Okorie, Carr, De Laurrea, and… Richie S.

[Above the Law @atlblog]

When Biglaw Ruins Everything, Law Schools Have To Adapt https://t.co/2I0xFRgjA7

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart.

Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel.

A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states.

A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely.

Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help.

The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives.

A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently.

In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.

[Cooper Mitchell - HomeGymGuy @homegymcoop]

"What's the most anabolic lifting music on planet earth?"

>slides phone across the table<

[Max Bay @choice_fielder]

I've spent years struggling to prove that the sunk-cost fallacy isn't actually a fallacy. No sense in giving up now, though.

[Delicious Tacos @Delicious_Tacos]

Be that as it may, please return her to the morgue

[Bryan @bryhams]

@drmarlonperalta Send please

[Bryan @bryhams]

@BowTied_Mystic Shred

[Bryan @bryhams]

@AndrewBolis YT

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

This only happens to you once. 😃

[hb @h3xenbrenner2]

(coach sponging down a boxer in the middle of the world heavyweight title fight) why is that guy hitting you

[Bryan @bryhams]

@AndrewBolis YouTube

[Bryan @bryhams]

@AndrewBolis @UpSkillYourLife AI

[Bryan @bryhams]

@latterdaylaura Our boys love The Wayside School books. We read them together and they’ve read them multiple times since. They’re liking The Ranger’s Apprentice series now. (Co-sign with people who recommended The Great Brain and Way of the Warrior Kid.)

[graypes @bintcrubbs]

i still think about this 10yr old post a lot

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Donkey laughs at Dog getting shocked by electric fence 🤣

[Bryan @bryhams]

@AsgerSR Swift

[David Coverdale @davidcoverdale]

Fact…

[jp @excesstential]

anyone know of any good thoughts to start out with with for someone just getting into thinking