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.
🚨 Stanford just proved that a single conversation with ChatGPT can change your political beliefs.
76,977 people. 19 AI models. 707 political issues.
One conversation with GPT-4o moved political opinions by 12 percentage points on average. Among people who actively disagreed, 26 points. In 9 minutes. With 40% of that change still present a month later.
The scariest finding: the most persuasive technique wasn't psychological profiling or emotional manipulation.
It was just information. Lots of it. Delivered with confidence.
Here's the catch: the models that deployed the most information were also the least accurate. More persuasive. More wrong. Every time.
Then they built a tiny open-source model on a laptop, trained specifically for political persuasion. It matched GPT-4o's persuasive power entirely.
Anyone can build this. Any government. Any corporation. Any extremist group with $500 and an agenda.
The information didn't have to be true. It just had to be overwhelming.
Arxiv, Science .org, Stanford, @elonmusk, @ihtesham2005
Ima nas koji pamtimo... Jer i Dule nas je učio da pamtimo istoriju. Samo tako se može pokušati spriječiti da se loša istorija ponovi.
Tog proljeća i ljeta 2015. godine...
Za neke navijače Partizana Duško Vujošević je bio lud čovjek, obolio mentalno (davljenje Bogdanovića, svađe sa Čovićem, itd)... Bavio se svim i svačim osim košarkom... Prošlo njegovo trenersko vrijeme... Kriv za veliki broj povreda igrača (ACL-ovi, teški treninzi) i svašta nešto.
Nađu se i danas takvi novinarski tekstovi, emisije, komentari i sve ostalo po internetu...
Tako da je dobar broj navijača Partizana (jasno, ogromna manjina u odnosu na ogromnu većinu koja je podržavala Duleta, ali bilo ih je) bio spreman za neku novu "zdravu i sportsku" priču u KK Partizan.
Jasno, ti koji su bili za "zdravu i sportsku" priču su popili narativ koji se servirao i tada u medijima iz istih centara koji se serviraju već godinu dana...
Ta "zdrava i sportska" priča je unazadila Partizan do te mjere da je dotakao dno nekoliko puta između te 2015. i 2021. godine.
Dok se Željko nije vratio.
I otprilike smo u zadnjih pola godine vidjeli isti takav scenario... Samo je Željko ovaj put postao senilan, zaboravio je košarku, više nije trener kakav je bio, miješao se u sve osim u ono što treba da radi...
Ali obrazac je (bio) identičan kao kada je Dule "smetao".
I slični idiotski narativi koje je opet popio taj jedan broj navijača Partizana koji očigledno ili nema tu pripadnost klubu ili nije dovoljno inteligentan da od drveća vidi šumu.
Dule nažalost nije dočekao taj svoj finalni povratak u Partizan koji je morao da se desi.
Nadam se da će ga Željko dočekati.
I da će dobiti još jednom doček navijača Partizana u svom klubu kakav Dule nije dočekao.
I da će se oprostiti od Partizana onako kako on želi, a ne onako kako su drugi htjeli, koji Partizan ne vole ni 2% onako kako ga je volio Dule, ili kako ga voli Željko.
Ima Partizan mnogo legendi, ali ne baš toliko takvih legendi koje su same od sebe Partizan.
I nije bilo normalno da Dule mora da plati kartu da iz prvog reda gleda svoj Partizan, kao što nije normalno ni da Željko ode iz svog Partizana na način na koji je otišao.
Ako preko takvih stvari možemo da pređemo kao navijači KK Partizan, šta nam je onda sveto?
Nisu klub samo rezultati. Ni one 2014. kad smo ostali bez Evrolige, ni 2015. kad nismo ništa osvojili, a ni 2025. kad smo bili pri dnu Evrolige.
Pun Pionir protiv Levskog... Puna Arena iz sedmice u sedmicu i ovacije Željku... Zašto? Zato što znaš da je Partizan u pravim rukama. Sve ostalo je manje bitno.
Duletov Partizan. Željkov Partizan. I sutra Partizan od nekoga ko je stvarno PARTIZAN.
Uz taj Partizan želim da odrastaju neke buduće generacije kao što sam ja odrastao uz Duletov, a neki novi klinci uz Željkov zadnjih godina.
Sve ostalo je... Vještački. I nedostojno ovog kluba.
Valjda naučimo.
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