Chukwuma, onye ọrụ ugbo Taoist

Igbo residing in USA | AFRICA IS THE BLUEPRINT | Igbo kwere na ihe ha kwuru | Galatians 5:4-6. | Reclaiming my Mother Tongue & Building Tech | Follow @UUAMNI

[Chukwuma, onye ọrụ ugbo Taoist @ChukBartholomew]

“Europe is not my centre.

Why be a sunflower and turn towards the sun? I myself am the sun.”
-Sembene Ousmane

[Chukwuma, onye ọrụ ugbo Taoist @ChukBartholomew]

Nigerian up front creating goals.
Son of a Liberian Ballon d’Or winner & former president on the bench.
Son of a former NFL wide receiver scored today.
Mostly Afros in that starting lineup.
With a Sergio, a Ricardo, and a single “Tim” as the elder captain.
IYKYK.

[The Athletic @TheAthletic]

Half of the U.S. men’s national team is Black. After decades of overwhelmingly White teams, the makeup of this team is powerful, writes @HenryBushnell.

[❦. @filmsbratz]

— happy juneteenth! ❤️🤍💙✊🏾| a day of profound significant for black americans & a pivotal moment in our history. to commemorate the end of slavery in the u.s. here’s a compilation of juneteenth parades & events spanning from 1979 — 1991 in fort worth, texas.

[Gav @afgavinstan]

This is what it's all about, unreal

[#WAKOFA 🇬🇭 @316simsim]

You can’t dress like this and expect to lose. You simply can’t.

[Chukwuma, onye ọrụ ugbo Taoist @ChukBartholomew]

@Thechat101 Tony Parker a certified homewrecker and somehow comparing him to Fox is a higher form of disrespect

[NYC Sanitation @NYCSanitation]

NEW YORK CITY YOU LISTEN TO ME! IF YOU’RE NEAR SOME TRASH RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR TRASH, GO DISPOSE OF THE TRASH RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND INSIDE THE OFFICIAL NYC BIN! YOUR TRASH IS OUR TRASH AS OF RIGHT NOW. CONGRATS KNICKS 💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡

[Chukwuma, onye ọrụ ugbo Taoist @ChukBartholomew]

@LobTies @Thechat101 It’s possible. See LeBron’s finals trips. First time when he overshot expectations, beating Detroit & losing to the Spurs (both better teams) & second time, when he had the better team, but underperformed, and met a historically great Dirk in flow state. Wemby is yr 1 Miami Bron

[Ave @SebastianAvenue]

😂

[Chukwuma, onye ọrụ ugbo Taoist @ChukBartholomew]

Jalen Brunson, 2026 Playoff Run

[4 4 4 @SlimSleepr]

We’ll never see anything like this again

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

Becky Hammon, avoid social media.

Jalen Brunson is immortalized

[Chukwuma, onye ọrụ ugbo Taoist @ChukBartholomew]

Front page on the @nypost. Do it.

[Chukwuma, onye ọrụ ugbo Taoist @ChukBartholomew]

Lights got too bright for these Spurs. And Knicks kept walking them down every night. Congrats to NYC. Brunson a legend forever.

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Carl Jung was right when he wrote that if a man does not face his shadow by age 35 he will not improve. He will calcify. His defense will become his personality.

[trollopszn @solracnkoff]

when the herbalists in ghana told you, you laughed

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

Piece of advice: if you are a parent, watch out what the Finns are doing and copy them. It's one of the few countries that pays closer attention to their youth. They observe, study, and adjust all the time!

For example, they are now gradually reversing their decade-long, tech-heavy education model to combat declining cognitive performance and severe classroom distractions. Schools are scaling back on devices in favor of printed textbooks, handwriting instruction, and pen-and-paper assignments.

[Tune, MBA, CISSP @CartuneNetwerk]

Everyone wants to feel distinct and important and when you can’t build or create anything important you have to rely on consumption forgetting anyone with a credit card can do the same. These billion dollar industries exist to capture the narcissistic nature of humans.

[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.

[Aidan @aidanlising]

Shai and Wemby before game 1