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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.

[𝑯𝑬𝑨𝑽𝒀 𝑴𝑬𝑻𝑨𝑳Ⓒ @HeavyMetal_999]

𝑨𝑪/𝑫𝑪 - 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒂 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒐𝒑 (𝑰𝒇 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 ’𝒏’ 𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒍)
(On Australian TV show, 1976)

[Iván Fernández Amil @ivanfamil]

Cuando Peter Jackson explicaba a Christopher Lee cómo debía gritar al ser apuñalado por la espalda durante el rodaje de "El Señor de los Anillos", Lee le miró muy serio y le dijo: "¿Sabes qué sonido hace realmente un hombre cuando le apuñalan? Porque yo sí". Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽

[Manuel de BCN (Daniel Guillén) @Manuel_de_BCN]

A veces, la comedia surge del imprevisto.

En 1965, el actor y cantante Ed Ames enseñaba a Johnny Carson a lanzar hachas y pasó esto.

Y el presentador de 'The Tonight Show' le suelta:
"No sabía que eras judío."

(SPOILER: realmente lo era)

[Manuel de BCN (Daniel Guillén) @Manuel_de_BCN]

Antes de abandonar Depeche Mode, Vince Clarke les ofreció grabar ‘Only You’, pero por despecho la rechazaron.

Clarke se unió a Alison Moyet y juntos la convirtieron en la exitosa carta de presentación de Yazoo

#BonDiaCanalla!!!

[Duende Maldito @jalegre70]

@JBCPERU @reyconbarba Esta noticia es de 2023 https://t.co/XjUzAqyTEz

[Duende Maldito @jalegre70]

@mauargo @grok este comunicado es verdadero?

[Jorge Corrales @Yosoycorra]

Esta es una página de Maus, el cómic de Art Spiegelman.

¿Cuántas viñetas veis?

8 ¿verdad?

Pues hay 9.

Seguidme en este hilo sobre Maus y al final vosotros también veréis la novena viñeta.

[Rafael_Narbona @Rafael_Narbona]

Se está criticado a @perezreverte por argumentar que es más elegante y sensato decir "Feliz Navidad" que "Feliz Solsticio de Invierno". Sinceramente, pienso que no le falta razón. Las memeces de la izquierda woke no conocen fronteras. Yo, que cada día soy más escéptico con las etiquetas políticas, seguiré felicitando las navidades. También prefiero decir "descanse en paz" en vez de que "la tierra te sea leve". Solo le pido una cosa al 2025: que nos dejen en paz los inquisidores del lenguaje inclusivo y la cultura de la cancelación. Sé que no lo harán. La estupidez es contumaz e ignora el desaliento.

[Duende Maldito @jalegre70]

@Ben_escrito 100

[Lugar Cinema🎬 @LugarCinema]

Ya tenemos las nominaciones a los #GoldenGlobes que se celebraran el 5 de Enero de 2025🏆

En este hilo os traigo las nominaciones para que no os perdáis nada🧵🧵

[Ismael Sanz @sanz_ismael]

“Los libros nos entrenan en la paciencia y las pantallas en el constante cambio y en la concentración en breves espacios de tiempo". La lectura profunda es una gimnasia para el cerebro, necesaria en la era de la tecnología. Mihael Kovač

[Duende Maldito @jalegre70]

@ChacoteroPeru @MininterPeru

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

The worst jobs in the world:

A thread 🧵

1. Insect exterminator

[Cementerio De Libros @Cementedelibros]

Brutal esto: no somos más que el tiempo que nos queda 🤯🔥
“Un día bueno” - Karmelo C. Iribarren
#cementeriodelibros

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

La cumbre del Monte Everest con un maravilloso paseo en drone de 4 minutos.

[Zoltium @ZoltiumHQ]

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[La Historieta Musical (aka Jesús Báez Alcaide) @HistorietaLa]

Hay canciones que parecen anticiparse a lo que cuentan. Y que cuentan más de lo que parecen decir a simple vista.

Y esta canción nos habló de un final, a pesar de nacer en un principio.

En el cierre de esta temporada de #LaHistorietaMusical hablaré de The End.

Hoy, The Doors.