𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖞 𝕲𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖗 🌼

Wife to awesome husband @paulgallagher, Mom to six fantastic #homeschooled kids, Traddie #Catholic, Conservative. Parents of an amazing #Autistic kid.

[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.

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.

-St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Happy Mother's Day!

[𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖞 𝕲𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖗 🌼 @Mater2Six]

@RaymondArroyo …and may my whole life be a faithful following of the life and virtues of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to whom with the Father and Thee be honor and glory for ever. Amen.” 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖞 𝕲𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖗 🌼 @Mater2Six]

@RaymondArroyo … of the holy Catholic Church, of which Thou art the infallible Guide; may my heart be ever inflamed with love of God and of my neighbor; may my will be ever conformed to the divine will…

[𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖞 𝕲𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖗 🌼 @Mater2Six]

“O Holy Ghost, divine Spirit of light and love, I consecrate to Thee my understanding, my heart and my will, my whole being for time and for eternity. May my understanding be always obedient to Thy heavenly inspirations and the teachings…1/2

[Raymond Arroyo @RaymondArroyo]

The Conclave has begun. The College of Cardinals have processed out of the Pauline Chapel into the Sistine a chapel where the Conclave will begin shortly.

[St. Padre Pio Quotes @PadrepioSaint]

“If certain thoughts bother you, it is the devil that causes you to worry, and not God ....... Who, being the spirit of peace, grants you tranquility

Jesus, I trust in You! 💯

[𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖞 𝕲𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖗 🌼 @Mater2Six]

@LarryOConnor @ArmyNavyGame @NavalAcademy Congrats!

[Paul D. Gallagher @paulgallagher]

Yes, and on the backs of the people!

[Catholic Quotes @CatholicQuote12]

Saint Joseph Pray for us.

[Napa Institute @NapaInstitute]

New York City encountered our Eucharistic Lord in a unique way during rush hour tonight. Thousands of Catholics, three bishops, fifty priests, and sixty religious sisters walked in Eucharistic procession through Manhattan. The Church is alive here in America!
#catholic

[St. Padre Pio Quotes @PadrepioSaint]

"Those who pray, have hope.....
Those who pray little, are in great danger.....
Those who do not pray, are lost....."

"Just pray!" ~Padre Pio🌹

[The Twilight Zone @TheNightGallery]

October 9, 1959: Twilight Zone's "One for the Angels" airs. A kind-hearted pitchman (Ed Wynn) battles Mr. Death (Murray Hamilton, 15 years before he was Amity's mayor in "Jaws") to save a little girl's life.

[Eric Sammons @EricRSammons]

Today is the Solemnity of Our Lady of Champion, the only approved Marian apparition in the United States.

In 1859, Our Lady appeared to Adele Brise in northern Wisconsin and told her, “I am the Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners, and I wish you to do the same.”

Our Lady of Champion, pray for us!

More info: https://t.co/erA6gr0ESt

[The Twilight Zone @TheNightGallery]

@RodSerlingFndtn And it’s always nice to see @AnneSerling and @NickParisiRSMF in person!

[The Twilight Zone @TheNightGallery]

#SerlingFest2024 is in the books! You can see me here (sporting a TZ tie) at the bandstand in Recreation Park in Serling’s hometown in Binghamton, NY, and next to his newly unveiled statue. Also with Jim Benson and Scott Skelton, authors of the definitive Night Gallery book!

[𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖞 𝕲𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖗 🌼 @Mater2Six]

What a wonderful day! It was great to be there for the unveiling.

[Rod Serling Memorial Foundation @RodSerlingFndtn]

Gaze your eyes on this beauty! ❤️

[Matthew Joseph @matthew_sede]

“Love your wife more than you love your own life. Never be at odds, but be true. Prefer her company at home. Esteem & admire her publicly, advise her patiently. Pray together; if your marriage is like this, your perfection will rival the holiest of monks.”

- St. John Chrysostom

[𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖞 𝕲𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖗 🌼 @Mater2Six]

🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️‍🩹🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

"The battle for the soul of America is spiritual." -

Robert Cardinal Sarah