Katie

Titus 2:3-5 • 1 Peter 3:1-6 • SCAD Survivor • Truck Safety Advocate • RanchLife • Soli Deo Gloria • 1689

[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.

[sᴄᴏᴛᴛ ᴀɴɪᴏʟ @ScottAniol]

The number one sign of lack of repentance is when the offender recasts himself as the victim.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

The cell is like an automated factory run by digital code which is processed by thousands of little nano-machines.

People actually believe this was an accident.

This is unequivocally Divine Design.
Atheism is dead.

[Katie @kstrader11]

“For you were called to freedom, brothers; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.”
(Galatians 5:13 LSB)
https://t.co/2rBmg8fl37

[Katie @kstrader11]

@MattWalshBlog Goat math is harder than chicken math!

[Katie @kstrader11]

@WWUTTcom @megbasham Now this one I like! 👏🏻

[Tom Buck (Five Point Buck) @TomBuck]

J C Ryle said there are two marks of the true Christian:

His inner warfare and his inner peace.

[Tyler C @tyler_austin55]

One of Screwtape's strategies for his nephew Wormwood was not to keep his patient from church altogether, but to ensure he only attended once he found the perfect one. The man should go to church, but always on his own terms, constantly scanning for faults and measuring the congregation against some ideal in his head. If Wormwood can convince him to hold out for the perfect church, he will never find it.

This does several things:

- It keeps him from committing anywhere.
- It feeds pride, placing him in judgment over the church rather than under it.
- It cuts him off from real Christian fellowship, which requires patience and humility.
- It trains his attention on trivial concerns rather than the substance of worship.

The goal is to keep him sitting back, critiquing and comparing, and ultimately detached from any actual body where he is known and corrected.

This pattern seems apparent today in how people consume online discourse. Podcasts and social media raise expectations that no local pastor or congregation can realistically meet. The subject becomes doctrinally opinionated and ecclesiastically rootless, which ends up being a disaster for the patient.

I was recently part of a conversation with a man who avoids church entirely because no congregation is sufficiently "based" in his area. "Most are compromised," he said, and he was actively encouraging others toward the same conclusion. Honestly, Screwtape could not have scripted it better.

[Katie @kstrader11]

Pray for your pastor….

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Every day we wait, they suffer.
Right now, there are kids praying for a rescue—for someone to step up, step in, and do something. 

Are we actually going to protect these kids from further exploitation, or are we just going to keep talking about it?

[🌷 LIZZIE🌷 @farmingandJesus]

I’m far right. I believe if he had not been there it clearly would not have happened. I believe he put himself at risk …. I believe the protesters are obstructing federal agents and their ability to do their Job.

That being said , this is disgusting and no better than how the left behaves generally and especially when Charlie Kirk was executed. He made a mistake , he still has a family who loves him and is mourning, he was still a human being … we all sin and fall short.

You’re GROSS. Don’t invoke the God you know in your tirades, but if you do … next time capitalize the G and have some respect.

Go be a democrat if you want to act like one.

[Katie @kstrader11]

@PatriotVerity @AlphaNews Wasn’t it the restaurant owner that started it all!?

[Katie @kstrader11]

“All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life—of all that was on the dry land—died. Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah remained, and those that were with him in the ark.” Genesis 7:22-23

[Katie @kstrader11]

@BrokerNashville @VerizonNews There’s an alert on the app 🤷‍♀️

[Katie @kstrader11]

@katie_m_hinkle @PoliceLoveland I was wondering the same!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. JD VANCE IS LIVID!

"Everybody repeating the lie this is some innocent woman out for a drive in MN - YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU."

"What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer nearly had his life ENDED, DRAGGED by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg, so you THINK maybe he's a little bit SENSTIVE about somebody ramming him with an automobile?!"

"What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America."

"What that headline leaves out is that that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job."

"If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left-wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques, to try to make it impossible for the president of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws."

"You people in the media have been LYING ABOUT THIS ATTACK. She was trying to RAM THIS GUY with her car! He shot back. He's already been seriously wounded before!"

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Katie @kstrader11]

@Farmgrl71 @CarringtonApp I uninstalled the whole app and waited to reinstall. I even pay for the annual subscription and still getting ads too. Hoping just glitches….

[Katie @kstrader11]

@CarringtonApp are you broken or are the hundreds of notifications I’m getting from all over the world real??